Coding Challenge #91: Snakes & Ladders - Part 1

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:10 The Game of Snake & Ladders
04:14 Code! Create Player and Tile classes
05:21 Create a Grid of Tiles
08:56 Make a Zig Zag Path
12:15 Show the Tiles
17:21 Make a Checkerboard Pattern
18:17 Create a Player
18:34 Roll a Die
19:14 Show the Player
21:20 End Condition to the Game
22:41 The Monte-Carlo Simulation
24:43 Compute the Average number of Rolls
30:09 See you in Part 2!

Editing by Mathieu Blanchette
Animations by Jason Heglund
Music from Epidemic Sound

#snakesandladders #game #p5js #javascript

[dominick]

After almost a year and a half I think it's all starting to click. I don't know how it is for everybody else but it feels like one issue after another when you just get started.

But after encountering the same issue a couple times you start to get a handle on how to solve it quickly. Add a bunch of those together and I start to feel like I'm being productive now.

[dermathze]

"Ancient Indian Videogame". I really like these kinds of coding challenges where you basically break down a well-known game as simple as possible. It really shows you the basics of programming.

[Drakkofire]

I saw a video of yours 1 year ago and I realized that I really like programming, I wasn’t even understanding what you were writting and now I understand everything and I make my own games, thank you for bringing to us this kind of videos and your sense of humor while explaining something, keep it up!

PS: I don’t have the best english sorry :P

[thisdood]

Half the time I have no idea what's going on, but you've inspired me to start learning to code with your sense of humor. Keep doing what you're doing

[critstixdarkspear]

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[aradarbel]

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[drigocks]

You Sir inspired me to study Computing Engineering. Thank you for changing my life!

[Nobiag]

you seem a bit like a real life dr. seuss character. and i totally mean that in a positive way ;)

great channel, keep up the good work :)

[fuschia-draws]

funnily enough i think the most globally known name for this game might just be “eels and escalators” from spongebob. someone should totally make that

[simpletongeek]

I thought Snakes and Ladders is 10 minute challenge? it surprised me that this comes in 3 parts!

[MarkJay]

congrats on 400k!
Coding challenges are my favorite videos.

[sadhlife]

I have also made a snakes and ladders for my school project in Python, it will be nice to see how different we make it, I'm sure it will be very different ;)

[jamesfrost]

But what about the Pepper Pig snakes and ladders?!?! we need to know! - love the video.

[xetop]

Thanks for sharing. I find your videos so interesting and entertaining :) I don't even program in javascript, and still watch almost all your videos. I really find your problemsolving so interesting, and even learn a thing or two :) Keep up the good work.

[kostasgeorgiou]

Great video Daniel! What about a tutorial on how to build a machine/deep learning algorithm that beats the games you made?

[TheAsadhaider]

The only video that has no dislikes!
Thumbs up!

[AWP]

what leanguage program you used mister ?

[TheChunkeh]

At 28:38 shouldn't it be rolls.length-2? You said you didn't want to include the last index in the array but rolls.length-1 would still include that wouldn't it? Meaning that the average rolls will be off. (albeit very slightly)

[MrMattical]

Why snakes and ladders? Could have made the far superior game Eels and Escalators?

[Ark-jugt]

There is no video of the last live before this one about gradient descent ? Perhaps you plan to redo it ?