From: Dark Ambient <sambient@...>
Date: 2006-06-29T22:07:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [SUMMARY] pp Pascal (#84)

Kudos to Dana ! I really like Learning to Program though as some here
know, the "rite to passage" (sorting with 3 arrays) is killing me ,
literally :).

Stuart

On 6/29/06, Ruby Quiz <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
> My wife, Dana, is the one working through Learning to Program and the reason I
> added the note to the quiz.  Those watching the solutions will know that she did
> submit, but she also told me in a private message:
>
>         But I thought you should know that that problem was HARD!!!!!
>
> I said in the quiz that you can do it with only the knowledge you've gained in
> the first eight chapters, and you can, but it does involve some tricky steps
> compared to the book problems.  If you decide to build up the triangle in memory
> for example, you either need one long Array and some clever index work to
> determine where rows start and stop or you need to work with nested Arrays.
> Nested Arrays have a single example in chapter eight and the only the briefest
> of mentions, so that might be a bit of a leap.
>
>