Example of writing longer code playing snakes and ladders in Statistical Data Science in R PDF

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Example of writing longer code: playing snakes and ladders 1 Snakes and Ladders game eYoust ar tatsquar e Snak esandLadder si sas i mpl egame.At ypi c alboar di sshownher 1.Your ol ladi eandmov et hatmanysquar es .I fy oul andonal adderf ooty ougot ot he t opoft hel adder .I fy oul andonasnak eheady ougot ot het ai loft hesnak e.Youcont i nue unt i l y our eachorpasssquar e100.I ti st r adi t i onal l ypl ay edwi t ht woormor epl ay er s t aki ngi ti nt ur nst or ol l t hedi e. Supposey ouar ewor ki ngf oranonl i negambl i ngcompany .Theyhav edev el opedan onl i negameofSnak esandLadder s .Pl ay er spays ay£3pergameandwi n£5i ft hey hr owsoft hedi e. compl et et hegamewi t hi nxxt hatt heexpect ed Theques t i ony ourbosshasas k edi s“ whati st heval ueofxxsucht pr ofitf ort hepl ay eri sz er o?”( t hi sr epr esent st hebr eak ev ensc enar i o;ov eral ar ge numberofgamest hepl ay eri sexpect edt onei t herwi nnorl osemoney ) .

2 Pseudocode Pseudocodei sadesc r i pt i onofwhaty ourcodedoesusi nggener alpr ogr ammi ng return et conv ent i ons( l i k eif,else, c) .I tshoul dbewr i t t ens ot hati tneedsnof ur t her expl anat i on.Communi cat i ngwhatt hecodedoesi st heonl yai m.I tal sohel pst owr i t e pseudocodebef or ey ouwr i t eact ualcodeasy oucanseehowev er yt hi ngfit st oget her , whatf unct i onsshoul dr et ur net c.Wei l l us t r at epseudocodef ort hepr ocessofsi mul at i ng gamesofSnak esandLadder sdes cr i bedi nt henextsect i on.Pseudocodei snotuni quet her ear el ot sofway sofwr i t i ngi t .

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