Day 1: 25 October 2023
What I did:
planned out the project
started the project after laying down the structure
completed loops for gameplay
Problems faced + solution:
program terminated right away after the first input despite being in a loop.
- still not sure of what happened, but the problem was fixed after downloading the file from VS live server.
turns were messed up, with player 1 appearing in turn 4 (skipping player 2's turn)
when the above problem was fixed, realised that 'O's and 'X's were opposite (Player 1 was supposed to be O but became X and vice versa)
realised that this was due to the bad placement of turn++(was before the change in grids and checking of win condition took place).
Fixed after moving turn++ to the end of the code (right before the start of the new turn)
//ORIGINAL (PROBLEMATIC CODE)
//turns
if(turn % 2 != 0){
std::cout << "Player 1's turn.";
std::cout << "You are O\n\n";
turn++;
}
else {
std::cout << "Player 2's turn.";
std::cout << "You are X\n\n";
turn++;
}
Loops ended and "player __ wins!" is displayed prematurely even when win conditions were not fulfilled.
This was due to the if/else statements.
Original:
if ((player2[i] == '1','2','3') |...)Edited1:
if ((player2[i] == '1' && '2' && '3') | ... )Edited2:
if ((player2[i] == '1' && player2[i] == '2' && player2[i] == '3') | ... )
Things to work on:
Figure out why win condition + cout "player __ wins!" is not working anymore, even after fulfilling win conditions.
How to reject duplicate input, currently duplicate = overwrite pre-existing X/O
Making the code easier to read using functions and templates...