Saturday, 27 April 2019

False Starts


The reason it took me a month to write the scheduling program for Barb's pickleball ladies was because I had so many false starts.  I would write my program and then print out the results and show them to Barb and she would find a problem with them.  I was trying to schedule anywhere from 5 to 24 players on 4 courts with 4 players on a court at a time.  When I was trying to find the best schedules Barb would only tell me what she wanted when she saw the results and noticed a problem.  I tried to tell her that the computer has no idea what she is thinking.  I have to tell it everything that she wants very specifically.  Computers don't assume anything and they can't read minds.

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