What are these things on the ground?
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ciphergothWell I would never have guessed that last post would be so popular! I have a followup question for you all.
So one of the things our robot can do besides navigate walls is pick up inert things that it finds inside squares, and put them down in other squares. It can carry any number of these things, and it may find any number in a square; they are all the same. There's one near the exit of the maze in the picture in my last post - the "1" with a circle around it. What should these things be called?
In Karel the Robot and all subsequent programs, they're called "beepers", but that's just confusing - that way it sounds like they do something, but they really don't. So what might be a better name? I've considered coins, tokens, chips, stones, pebbles but I'm just not sure, and maybe there's a better name I'm missing. Do you like any of my proposals, or do you have a better one of your own? Thanks!
So one of the things our robot can do besides navigate walls is pick up inert things that it finds inside squares, and put them down in other squares. It can carry any number of these things, and it may find any number in a square; they are all the same. There's one near the exit of the maze in the picture in my last post - the "1" with a circle around it. What should these things be called?
In Karel the Robot and all subsequent programs, they're called "beepers", but that's just confusing - that way it sounds like they do something, but they really don't. So what might be a better name? I've considered coins, tokens, chips, stones, pebbles but I'm just not sure, and maybe there's a better name I'm missing. Do you like any of my proposals, or do you have a better one of your own? Thanks!
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