This is a simple version of TicTacToe written in C.
I wrote this primarily to help a friend of mine. It has virtually no error checking (primarily in regards to the scanf functions, so don’t mess up while inputting!)
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#include <stdio.h> char board[3][3]; char turn = 'X'; void init(char board[3][3]); void draw(char board[3][3]); void move(char board[3][3], char turn); int isGameOver(char board[3][3]); int main() { init(board); while(!isGameOver(board)) { draw(board); move(board, turn); // change turn if(turn == 'X') { turn = 'O'; } else { turn = 'X'; } } } void init(char board[3][3]) { int x, y; for(y = 0; y < 3; y++) { for(x = 0; x < 3; x++) { board[x][y] = ' '; } } } void move(char board[3][3], char turn) { int x, y, moved = 0; printf("%c's Turn:\n", turn); while(moved == 0) { printf("Input column (0-2):\n"); scanf("%d", &x); printf("Input row (0-2):\n"); scanf("%d", &y); if(x >= 0 && x <= 2 && y >= 0 && y <= 2) { if(board[x][y] == ' ') { board[x][y] = turn; moved = 1; } else { printf("You can not go there!\n"); } } else { printf("Row or Column invalid!\n"); } } } int isGameOver(char board[3][3]) { int x, y; // check rows for(y = 0; y < 3; y++) { if(board[0][y] != ' ') { if(board[0][y] == board[1][y] && board[1][y] == board[2][y]) { printf("Player %c Wins!\n", board[0][y]); return 1; } } } // check columns for(x = 0; x < 3;x++) { if(board[x][0] != ' ') { if(board[x][0] == board[x][1] && board[x][1] == board[x][2]) { printf("Player %c Wins!\n", board[x][0]); return 1; } } } // check diagonals if(board[0][0] != ' ') { if(board[x][0] == board[1][1] && board[1][1] == board[2][2]) { printf("Player %c Wins!\n", board[0][0]); return 1; } } if(board[2][0] != ' ') { if(board[2][0] == board[1][1] && board[1][1] == board[0][2]) { printf("Player %c Wins!\n", board[2][0]); return 1; } } // check cat game if(board[0][0] != ' ' && board[1][0] != ' ' && board[2][0] != ' ' && board[0][1] != ' ' && board[1][1] != ' ' && board[2][1] != ' ' && board[0][2] != ' ' && board[1][2] != ' ' && board[2][2] != ' ') { printf("Cat Game!"); return 1; } // the game is still going return 0; } void draw(char board[3][3]) { int x, y; for(y = 0; y < 3; y++) { for(x = 0; x < 3; x++) { printf("%c", board[x][y]); if(x < 2) { printf("|"); } } printf("\n"); if(y < 2) { printf("-----\n"); } } } |
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Hey, so you used forward declarations of the functions so you could include the array in them?
Hey Scott, thanks for the question.
That’s not entirely the case, but close.
Take this for example, if you try to use a variable name “i” in code but never define it, the code has no idea what it is, so at some point you have to say “int i;”
or “char i;”
or whatever type it is correct
so the same goes for functions
you have to tell the code to expect a function of a specific name and behavior
so the things you see at the beginning are telling the code that hey there is a function named init that returns void and excepts a char array [3][3] (and the name is optional i just like it for style)
so that later on in the code when you call
init(board); it knows what that means
so in general before you use a function
you must at some point tell the compiler about it
now,
if you go int add(int a, int b) {return a+b;}
THEN below that type add(a,b);
it will work
since you defined the full function before calling it
when code gets real big
or multiple files start to use the same set of codeyou tend to factor these function declarations into header files that are shared then put the function definitions in C files
but for small examples like this
i just put the declarations up at top of the c file, this is common practice
Hi Ken
I really like your TTT C code-thanks!
I have been trying to get a simple chessboard to display in the console and take user move inputs to move the pieces but my C coding skill is limited! I thought I might try and adapt your code to help my aim. So I will post what I have so far and wonder if you could help me get it working?
#include
/*
* Partly based on KenSoft tictactoe
* @http://ken-soft.com/2011/07/19/tictactoe-c-procedural-style/
*/
char board[8][8];
char turn = ‘W’;
void init();
void draw();
void move(char board[8][8], char turn);
int isGameOver(char board[8][8]);
int main() {
init(board);
while(!isGameOver(board)) {
draw(board);
move(board, turn);
// change turn
if(turn == ‘W’) {
turn = ‘B’;
} else {
turn = ‘W’;
}
}
}
void init() {
int r;
int c;
char board[8][8]={
{‘r’, ‘n’, ‘b’, ‘q’, ‘k’, ‘b’, ‘n’, ‘r’},
{‘p’, ‘p’, ‘p’, ‘p’, ‘p’, ‘p’, ‘p’, ‘p’},
{‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘},
{‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘},
{‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘},
{‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘, ‘ ‘},
{‘P’, ‘P’, ‘P’, ‘P’, ‘P’, ‘P’, ‘P’, ‘P’},
{‘R’, ‘N’, ‘B’, ‘Q’, ‘K’, ‘B’, ‘N’, ‘R’}
};
printf(“\n”);
for (r=0;r<8;r++)
{
for (c=0;c= 0 && r = 0 && c <= 8) {
if(board[r][c] == ' ') {
board[r][c] = turn;
moved = 1;
} else {
printf("You can not go there!\n");
}
} else {
printf("Row or Column invalid!\n");
}
}
}
int isGameOver(char board[8][8]) {
// the game is still going
return 0;
}
void draw() {
int r;
int c;
char board[8][8]={
{'r', 'n', 'b', 'q', 'k', 'b', 'n', 'r'},
{'p', 'p', 'p', 'p', 'p', 'p', 'p', 'p'},
{' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '},
{' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '},
{' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '},
{' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '},
{'P', 'P', 'P', 'P', 'P', 'P', 'P', 'P'},
{'R', 'N', 'B', 'Q', 'K', 'B', 'N', 'R'}
};
printf("\n");
for (r=0;r<8;r++)
{
for (c=0;c<8;c++)
{
printf("%c",board[r][c]);
}
printf("\n");
}
}
Many thanks…:-)
Glad it helped! I’m a bit swamped at the moment, but if I have some free time i’ll try to help you debug it! In the mean time, keep trying and update me with your status