Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe in Python

Motivation:

• Final project in Computing Fundamentals: create a game using object-oriented programming

Approach:

• Created a more complex version of tic-tac-toe with object oriented programming

  • Tic-tac-toe board with a smaller tic-tac-toe board in each square 

  • To win a square, the board inside of it must be won

  • Players must make their move in the larger square that corresponds to the smaller square of their opponent's previous turn 

  • If the square were full, then it becomes a free choice 

• Two game modes: bot that made strategic moves against the player and two-player mode

•  Program did not throw an error at an invalid input 

  • Any input prompts did not move on until a valid input type was entered

Results:

• Successful two-player game mode of ultimate tic-tac-toe

• An easy to beat bot to play against 

• • So many strategies that it was impossible to account for every scenario

  • Might be helpful to research machine learning for the bot

Motivation:

• Learn more about C++ and object-oriented programming by making a hangman game

Approach:

• Two game modes: an auto-generated word or a player-made word 

  • Could choose from easy, medium, or hard for the auto-generated word 

  • Could input any string consisting of letters, dashes, spaces, or apostrophes for player-made

  • Auto-generated word was randomly chosen from an array using time-based seed 

• Vectors kept track of and display the characters in the mystery word 

• Player had the option to guess a letter or enter '1' to guess the whole word

• Once word was guessed, player got the option to play again

• Any prompt for an input would not move on until a valid input type was put in 

Results:

• Hangman!