new C#er here. I'm making a text based adventure through a console app. I made a map command where when you type "map" it shows you a map with an X indicating your current location. Int variables xCoordinate and yCoordinate are used to represent character location on the map and change by 1 whenever you type "go north" or "go south" etc. The map is 13x10, so there are 130 possible places for your character to be. I made 130 different if statements and it works just fine. My question is if there is a more efficient/easier way of doing this. Here is what my code looks like:
public static void Map()
{
Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Cyan;
Console.WriteLine("\n" + xCoordinate + ", " + yCoordinate);
Console.WriteLine("\nTowns are represented by a \"T\". Current location is shown as an \"X\".\n");
Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.DarkGray;
if ((xCoordinate == -7) && (yCoordinate == -4))
{
Console.Write("[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][T][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] 5\n");
Console.Write("[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] 4\n");
Console.Write("[ ][ ][ ][ ][T][ ][ ][ ][ ][T][ ][ ][ ] 3\n");
Console.Write("[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] 2\n");
Console.Write("[ ][ ][T][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ] 1\n");
Console.Write("[T][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][T][ ][ ][ ][T][ ] 0\n");
Console.Write("[ ][ ][ ][ ][T][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]-1\n");
Console.Write("[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]-2\n");
Console.Write("[ ][ ][T][ ][ ][ ][T][ ][ ][ ][T][ ][ ]-3\n");
Console.Write("[X][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]-4\n");
Console.Write("-7 -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5\n\n");
}
Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.White;
}
Again, I have the map typed out 130 times in 130 different if statements, each time the X is somewhere else. I would think there would be a better way to do this, but I have no idea.
You should read and learn about loops like for.
Something along lines
for(var xCoordinate = -10; xCoordinate <=10; xCoordinate ++)
{
for(var yCoordinate = 5; yCoordinate >= 5; yCoordinate --)
{
if (xCoordinate == ... && yCoordinate == ..)
{
Console.Write("[X]");
}
else
{
Console.Write("[ ]");
}
}
Console.WriteLine();
}
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