Re: Count Robots on Field, place in array

On contemplating the issue. I've decided to try and create an ArrayList of 
the object type, and then in a seperate class, create the object Enemy 
which will store each enemy on the play field. Moving forward with the 
idea. Though I feel it will require a bit of tweaking to get it sorted, 
assuming it even works. 

On Thursday, October 6, 2016 at 4:38:19 AM UTC-5, Jesse Bevil wrote:
>
> So I'm looking to count the number of robots on the field. Not really sure 
> how I can accomplish that. I was thinking that if I make a multi-dimension 
> array and on each scanned robot save e.getName and e.getDistance and then 
> sort the array from lowest to highest distance, then select the target at 
> the top index of the array that I could improve survivability. I'm new to 
> RoboCode (about an hour ago), I am also new to Java (Fundamentals I class 
> in college, received an A, but doesn't really mean much without 
> experience). 
>
> So I suppose my problem is basically how to go about creating the array 
> that stores both the string and the integer short of creating two arrays. 
> I'm sure this idea is fairly basic and has likely already been done, but it 
> was my first thought when I considered avoiding shooting at the first thing 
> I saw (something could be closer).
>
> Also while looking at the API I noticed that there was an option to 
> getClassName() which I suppose if I can use that within the scanner I could 
> get the specific class name for a robot, IE: if 
> e.GetClassName().Equals(Tracker) { handle tracker robot code goes here}. I 
> could handle specific sample robots. Though I don't think the goal would be 
> to beat the sample robots, more so the other robots other people code?
>
> I would like to say that I have a clue where to start so that I could 
> provide some level of attempted code, but honestly I can't think of how to 
> approach the array situation, which is the basic question. I can write the 
> code to sort the information after I've got an idea of how to store it. 
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance. 
>

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