Re: Is there an easy way to find the right class?

RedGrittyBrick wrote:

Most books have a Contents section at the front and an index at the back. I'd look in the Contents section for topics that seem close to what I needed. If that didn't work I'd dream up a few likely keywords and look for them in the index.

Yes... live the dream...I think that if you are forced to resort to using a book (maybe because you are on a desert island) then you need something high level to start looking for and then narrow you search.


Google is useful though.

Only if you format your search properly. Otherwise you can end up with pages and pages of stuff that looks useful on the summary page, but once you get in there, it's talking about C++ or PHP or ... gasp ... COBOL


Of course, the above are obvious to you already. Since you are not a member of the secret cabal, we're not telling you of the far superior secret method that you suspect exists.


I knew it.... the dirty dozen rides again...how do I join? Are Canadians welcome?

Actually, for your problem as stated, a random walk algorithm should be quite good, the problem probably correlates quite well with some recent scientific research into food-gathering methods employed by various animals and hunter-gatherer tribes in a pre-agricultural setting. An occasional long distance relocation followed by a series of small random movements is apparently quite effective in simulations. I recommend that over a simple linear traversal of the search space.

I have no idea what you just said ... Are you calling me a Neanderthal? I assure you ... my arms may be long, and my love for bananas legendary, but I am not a gorilla LOL.

Seriously though, if the Internet (thunderbird flagged internet as a spelling mistake and I don't want to make spelling mistakes no more) is such a great source of information, why isn't there a site (like off the sun site) where you can go and type in a class criteria search and have it return some useful classes?

FP ...
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