{"id":154,"date":"2013-07-01T00:01:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T08:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2013-06-29T06:48:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T14:48:36","slug":"we-have-a-winnah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c-for-dummies.com\/blog\/?p=154","title":{"rendered":"We Have a Winnah!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The game of Tic-Tac-Toe is played on a simple 3-by-3 grid, what C programmers would call a matrix. It’s not The Matrix<\/em>, of course, but it’s a simple array in which players can battle.
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\nCoding a Tic-Tac-Toe game would involve multiple steps, such as creating the game matrix, accepting input to place an X or an O, plus a function to determine whether or not a winning move has been made. That last steps is this month’s exercise.<\/p>\n

Oh, no: I wouldn’t dare put a full-on Tic-Tac-Toe game as an exercise. It’s something you probably want to handle one step at a time. This exercise is an important step, but not the entire code.<\/p>\n

To prevent burnout, I’ve listed the bulk of the code below. The only thing missing is the tictactoe()<\/em> function, which evaluates the matrix to determine whether a valid winning combination has occurred. Your task this month is to write that tictactoe()<\/em> function.<\/p>\n

\r\n#include <stdio.h>\r\n\r\nvoid showgrid(int *array);\r\nint tictactoe(int *array);\r\n\r\nint main()\r\n{\r\n    int sample1[] = { 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0 };\r\n    int result;\r\n\r\n    showgrid(sample1);\r\n    result = tictactoe(sample1);\r\n    if(result)\r\n        puts(\"That's a winner!\");\r\n    else\r\n        puts(\"No winnger.\");\r\n\r\n    return(0);\r\n}\r\n\r\nvoid showgrid(int *array)\r\n{\r\n    int x;\r\n\r\n    puts(\"TIC-TAC-TOE:\");\r\n    for(x=0;x<9;x+=3)\r\n    {\r\n        printf(\"%d %d %d\\n\",\r\n            array[x],\r\n            array[x+1],\r\n            array[x+2]);\r\n    }\r\n}\r\n\r\nint tictactoe(int *array)\r\n{\r\n}<\/pre>\n
Please give this one a shot before you click the link below to view my solution. Remember that my solution is merely one of many; it’s not the right solution, nor is it the perfect solution.<\/p>\n
Exercise Solution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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