learning arrays and got confused by what transposition is. In genetics, it means genes replacing other genes, but the number based example on the official documentation wasn’t meshing well with dyslexia and end-of-day tiredness. I just saw numbers. It looked the same.
I started swapping out numbers for names from different fandoms and eventually came up with this to help me remember how it works.
a = [["Jaime Lannister","Cersi Lannister","Tyrion Lannister"], ["Buffy","Spike", "Willow"], ["Harry Potter","Bellatrix Lestrange","Harmanie Granger"]]
print "we're having dinner with "
puts a.transpose[(rand(a.length + 1))]
print " tonight. Should be interesting."
This outputs a character from each fandom randomly coming to dinner.
I had problems getting the last embedded array to show using squence numbers- until I remembered computers don’t count at 1. Swapping 3 for 2 worked.
But I wanted to be surprised by who was coming! I wanted to use the random class.
and using rand with the number of 2, wasn’t working.
This is because the value of rand is between 0 but less than the number entered, so using [rand (2)] was why Tyrion never graced our imaginary table.
(rand(a.length + 1)) is for me to help me remember that in future.
Moodthy Alghorairi is a product designer and digital consultant behind Wyld.Media. She’s been designing digital experiences since 2002. She’s a runner, mama to Floki (8 y.o parrot) and Thais (3 y.o human), and head geek at MadridGeeks.es. Follow her on social media below, or sign up for the newsletter to get new posts in your inbox.
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