Chutes and Ladders problem

hello. I am making a text version of Chutes and Ladders for a project I have to do for school. I am almost done i think, but I have a problem with my Chutes and Ladders part of the program. This is what I have so far.


code//

package APcompsci.Myprogs;

import cs1.Keyboard;

public class game1 {
private int [][] map= new int[10][10];
private final int SPACE = 0;
private final int PERSON = -1;
private double s = 0;
private boolean over = true;
private int total = 0;
private int total1 = 0;
private int r = 0;
private int c = 0;
Die d = new Die();

public void initialboard() {
//sets a new board up
for ( c = 0; c < 10; c++)
for (r = 0; r < 10; r++){
map[r][c] = SPACE;
map[5][6] = 88;
map[2][9] = 55;
map[4][9] = 33;
map[3][8] = 50;
map[9][7] = 77;
}
}

public void display() {
for ( c = 0; c< 10; c++){
System.out.println("");
for ( r = 0; r< 10; r++)
System.out.print("" + map[r][c] + "\t");
}
}

public void move(){
int u , count = 0, r = 0, c = 0, t = 0, q = 0;;

System.out.println("\n" + "Start at 1");
do{
map[r][c] = 0;
System.out.println("\n" + "press 1 to roll!!!");
u = Keyboard.readInt();
d.roll();
System.out.println("\n" + "you have rolled a " + d.getFaceValue());
total += d.getFaceValue();
System.out.println("the total is " + (total + 1));
r = total;
t = total - d.getFaceValue();
double s = total - d.getFaceValue();
if ((r / 10) > (s / 10)){
q = r/10;
r = r - q * 10;
c = c + 1;
}
else if ((r/10) <= (s/10) && ((r/10) == (t/10))){
q = r/10;
r = r - q * 10;
}
else {
r = total;

}

if (total >= 100){
break;
}
map[r][c] = PERSON;
chutes();
ladders();
display();
count++;
}while (total < 100);
System.out.println("You rolled " + count + " times to finish!");
}


public void chutes(){
int total1 = 0;

if (PERSON == map[2][9]){
map[2][9] = 55;
map[4][5] = PERSON;
total -= 37;
System.out.println("CHUTE!!!");
}
if (PERSON == map[4][9]){
map[4][9] = 33;
map[2][3] = PERSON;
total -= 62;
System.out.println("CHUTE!!!");
}
if (PERSON == map[3][8]){
map[3][8] = 50;
map[9][4] = PERSON;
total -= 34;
System.out.println("CHUTE!!!" );
}
if (PERSON == map[9][7]){
map[9][7] = 77;
map[7][6] = PERSON;
total -= 12;
System.out.println("CHUTE!!!");
display();
}
}

public void ladders(){
if (PERSON == map[5][6]){
map[5][6] = 88;
map[7][8] = PERSON;
total += 12;
System.out.println("LADDER!!!");
}
}

}

This is part that is wrong...

The good thing is that it does chute to a certain place when the PERSON lands on a Chute or a ladder, but when I roll again, it continues from the chute or ladder place instead of the new place where it's supposed to be and the PERSON just stays in the new spot. I've been working on this for like 3 hours and I've gotten no where... . If you can just guide me or help me to get somewhere that would be GREAT!!!

Hello. I'm still stuck. Please help me out in anyway. I'm not asking you guys to do my program for me.

How do you handle making a move?

When a player moves forward based on the dice you update their position on the board. Once they land on a chute you need to update that variable to whatever the new square is. If you've tried this and it doesn't work, you've got a problem in how you're handling player movement.

not quite sure what you're saying. I update the board when the player moves, but I kinda do update the board when the person lands on the chute but it doesn't continue from that spot. I dunno how to fix that.

Ok. You updated the location of the person on the board but you didn't tell your loop where to start based on the new location of the person. I propose that instead of having the board track the person's location, let the person track it's own location.

In reviewing your code I've discovered some problems:
1. You are using single letter variable names. This may be fine for you but for someone else it is difficult. Also, when you come back to this in 6 months or a year you may not be able to tell. Use more descriptive variable names.

2. The next time you post code, please use [code][/ code] or [highlight=java][/ highlight] tags to display your code in a more readable format.

Thank you! got it now