Is it normal to spend hours on a single function? I don't feel like I've even gotten to the hard part of parsing human input into Morse code but it still took me ages to work through the function to take a sequence of Morse tokens and turn them into a string. I'm gonna assume that's normal at my skill level though. At least the puzzling through edge cases has been fun, and I think I've got the right approach. I think writing tests for this one is going to be a piece of cake, too (she said, in her (alleged) hubris).
Cheers!
Jayda

This morning I started attempting to figure out how the 'tap it out' functionality I want can actually work. I want it to be dynamic based on whatever speed the user goes at, as long as it's somewhat consistent per letter. Checking every frame and keeping track of how many frames a button has been pressed is pretty easy stuff, but caused me to have to reckon with the fact that I don't have anywhere to store state yet- I just jumped right in to the Morse code functions because they were fun and interesting.

After some pondering and talking stuff through with my wife, I think I have a really neat layout for how the game state can flow, with a place to keep track of world stuff while in menus, and hopefully a decent bit of structure without being overwhelming. Sorry, that's kind of vague and floaty, but that's where I'm at right now. Gotta keep this mysterious, right? (It's just a bunch of enums and structs. That's all right now. There's going to be associated functions, too, like update and draw. And that's all computers are- just data and functions.) Now that I know where the state should be put, though, I think I get to start biting into more of the meat of how to parse human tippy taps into Morse code a computer can reliably read, which is pretty exciting! (To me, at least.)

NewGirlJade wrote:

Is it normal to spend hours on a single function? I don't feel like I've even gotten to the hard part of parsing human input into Morse code but it still took me ages to work through the function to take a sequence of Morse tokens and turn them into a string. I'm gonna assume that's normal at my skill level though. At least the puzzling through edge cases has been fun, and I think I've got the right approach. I think writing tests for this one is going to be a piece of cake, too (she said, in her (alleged) hubris).
Cheers!
Jayda

I did start writing some tests for this one, and have a list of ones I want to do eventually, but it's been hard to focus and I poked at this enough to be pretty sure it's functioning correctly, so I'm moving on till I want to come back and finish. It's not ideal, but I'm being nice to myself and want to keep moving instead of getting stuck on testing.