Thread: Need help with letter guessing program

Can anyone please help i need to get this finished

Post your code with the errors...

I think i did the part good this time, but i got some dumb errors. it has missing ';' before 'type' on the side of int games and it now says numguesses is undeclared seriously what the hell?

Code:

#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE
#include <stdio.h>
#define MAXGUESSES 6


void Instructions( );


int PlayGame(char answer);


char  GetGuess(  );


int CompareGuess(char guess, char answer);


int main()
{
    //declare additional variables
char letter=0;
int gamesToPlay = 0;
int i = 0;
FILE *inp;
Instructions();
inp=fopen("guessLtrs.txt","r");
scanf(" %d",&gamesToPlay);
//get c letter


    
    //open file
    //get number of games to play
    
    

    for(i=0;i<gamesToPlay;i++)
    {
fscanf(inp," %c",&letter);
GetGuess(  );


        //get a letter from file
        //Play one game
        //check for win or lose    
    }
    fclose(inp);
    //close file
    return 0;
}

//this function provides instructions to the user on how to play the game
void Instructions( )
{
printf("Welcome to Letter Guess\n");
printf("To begin you will enter the number of games you want to play(1 – 5 games)\n");
printf("You have 6 chances to guess each letter\n");
printf("Let's begin:\n\nHow many games would you like to play? (1 - 5):");
return;
}

//this function prompts the player to make a guess and returns that guess
//this function is called from inside the PlayGame( ) function described above

char  GetGuess(  )
{
    char guess=0;
printf("Enter a guess:", guess);
scanf(" %c",&guess);
return guess;
}

//this function takes two arguments, the guess from the player and the answer from the file. 
//It lets the user know if the guess comes alphabetically before or after the answer 
//The function returns 1 if the guess matches the answer and returns a 0 if they do not match

int CompareGuess(char guess, char answer)
{
    if (guess==answer)
return 1;
else
if (guess<answer){
printf("The letter you are trying to guess comes after %c", guess);
return 0;
}else{
printf("The letter you are trying to guess comes before %c", guess);
return 0;


}
//this function runs one game. It for checks either 6 incorrect guesses or correct guess.
//It returns a 0 if the game is over and the player did not guess the letter, otherwise it returns 1.

int PlayGame(char answer)
{    
    int numGuesses = 0;
    while(numGuesses < MAXGUESSES)
    {    
        GetGuess(  );

        //get guess function call
//compare guess function call
//update counter for number of guesses used
numGuesses = numGuesses +1;
    }
    
}

i am making progress but it's super slow.

You never call compareGuess or PlayGame. START SMALL...Post your code with only your main and getGuess functions. Then print the guess in main after calling getGuess. If you can't do that I don't think there is much more help we can give you. You will need to go back and learn the basics.

If I never call compare guess or playgame why does the outline tell me to put the functions into Int Playgame?

What I'm saying is you never use that function...

Can you explain step by step i'm new to all of this.

I was good until this compare and greater than became involved also this is the biggest program to date i've had to do. I did not think it would be that difficult when i first started but i was dead wrong. I wont ask for help after this program I promise, Im gonna have to devote a good amount of time into programming.

can you explain how to solve those errors? even if i remove the getguess function i still get them.

Start with this...

Now send guess and letter to the compareGuess function and see if they are the same. Once you can do that let us know.

Code:

#include <stdio.h>

void getGuess(char* guess);

int main()
{
    char guess;
    char letter = 'R';
 
    getGuess(&guess);
    printf("%c\n",guess);
    //call compareGuess

    return 0;
}

void getGuess(char* guess)
{    
    printf("Enter a char: ");
    scanf("%c",guess);    
}