Re: [OT] Towers of Hanoi with four pegs
Re: [OT] Towers of Hanoi with four pegs
- Subject: Re: [OT] Towers of Hanoi with four pegs
- From: Clark Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:24:44 -0400
On Apr 29, 2004, at 15:15, Eric Czarny wrote:
I know this is slightly off topic, but I couldn't find any place else
to find help. Anyway, for computer science I need to write a recursive
function to solve the Towers of Hanoi with four pegs. However, I have
spent all day working on a solution but can't seem to figure it out.
If any of you have code to solve this problem it would help me out a
great deal as the assignment is due tonight at 11:59:59 EST.
I don't mean to sound insensitive, but you'd better get to work.
Asking others for code to solve this problem is dishonest and will not
teach you whatever it was that you should have learned in class. When
you get out in the "real world", you will not always have someone that
will do your work for you, so by doing this now, you are doing a
disservice to your future self as well as to any future employers or
co-workers. My advice would be to go and talk to your professor, or
another student in your class, for more help, and if that is not
possible:
1) Sit down with pencil and paper, away from your computer
2) Work out for yourself, how *you* would solve the towers of Hanoi
problem (i.e. not how you would tell a computer to do it)
3) Then, after you've worked out the process outside of the computer,
it should be relatively simple to translate that algorithm into source
code.
--
Clark S. Cox III
email@hidden
http://homepage.mac.com/clarkcox3/
http://homepage.mac.com/clarkcox3/blog/B1196589870/index.html
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