phase 0 unit 2 week 1 boggle class challenge

0.2.1-boggle_class_from_methods.rb

class BoggleBoard

  def initialize(board)
    @board = board
  end

  def create_word(*coords)
    coords.map { |coord| @board[coord.first][coord.last]}.join("")
  end

  def get_row(row)
    @board[row].join
  end

  def get_col(col)
    @board.collect { |row| row[col] }.join
  end

#  def get_diagonal(coord1, coord2)
#  end
end

dice_grid = [["b", "r", "a", "e"],
             ["i", "o", "d", "t"],
             ["e", "c", "l", "r"],
             ["t", "a", "k", "e"]]


boggle_board = BoggleBoard.new(dice_grid)

# implement tests for each of the methods here:

puts boggle_board.create_word
puts boggle_board.create_word([2,1], [1,1], [1,2], [0,3])  #=> returns "code"  
puts boggle_board.create_word([0,1], [0,2], [1,2])  #=> creates what california slang word?
#two more calls:
puts boggle_board.create_word([3,0], [3,1], [3,2], [3,3]) #=> "take"
puts boggle_board.create_word([0,1], [1,1], [0,2],[1,2]) #=> "road"

puts boggle_board.get_row(1) == "iodt"

puts boggle_board.get_col(3) == "etre"

p boggle_board.get_row(0) #=> "brae"
p boggle_board.get_row(1) #=> "iodt"
p boggle_board.get_row(2) #=> "eclr"
p boggle_board.get_row(3) #=> "take", boggle!
 
p boggle_board.get_col(0) #=> "biet"
p boggle_board.get_col(1) #=> "roca"
p boggle_board.get_col(2) #=> "adlk"
p boggle_board.get_col(3) #=> "etre", French boggle!


# create driver test code to retrieve a value at a coordinate here:

puts boggle_board.create_word([3,2]) #=> k


#Review and Reflect:
#
#Ruby is my first programming language, so procedural programming feels
#naked to me compared to Object Oriented programming. Chermaine and I kind
#of delved into object oriented in our first collection of boggle methods
#as well, since we had to define boggle_board as an instance variable to get it to work everywhere.
#
#It is much easier to see what methods can be improved when they are wrapped 
#into the BoggleBoard class. For instance, the create_word method can also be
#used to get a single value at a coordinate, so maybe it should be re-named
#to imply that, or changed so it can only create words.
#
#