Thread: Table tennis scoring system

hi guys, i wanted to write a piece of code that can be used for table tennis matches scoring.
The rules is
1>a person wins a match if he reaches 11 points with a difference of 2,
2>if it is10-10 the player who has a two point advantage wins.
i have come up with this code

Code:

#include<iostream>
#include<conio.h>
#include<string>
#include<iomanip>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    int point;
    int player1=0,player2=0;
    string name1,name2;
    cout<<"Enter first player name ";
    cin>>name1;
    cout<<"Enter the second player name ";
    cin>>name2;
    system("cls");
    
    cout<<"If "<<name1<<" wins a point press 1";
    cout<<"\nIf "<<name2<<" wins a point press 2";
    getch();
    
    system("cls");
    cout<<"Scoreboard"<<endl;
    cout<<name1<<setw(5)<<name2<<endl;
    cout<<player1<<setw(5)<<player2<<endl;
    getch();
    
    getch();
    system("cls");
    while((player1==11&&player2<10)||(player2==11&&player2<10));
    {
    cout<<"Enter point won by ";
    cin>>point;
    if(point==1)
    player1++;
    if(point==2)
    player2++;   
    cout<<"Scoreboard"<<endl;
    cout<<name1<<setw(5)<<name2<<endl;
    cout<<player1<<setw(5)<<player2<<endl;
    }
getch();
}

what should i do further?

You probably should remove all those "extra" getch() that you have in there.

Also, I see nothing in your code to cope with the "first to get two points ahead after 11 points".

Edit:

Code:

(player2==11&&player2<10)

can never be true - as player2 is EITHER 11 or less than 10, never both at the same time [1]

[1] Obviously, in theory we could read different values for each of those tests if there is a second thread changing the player2 values - but there is no sign of threads in the above code, and the "hole" to achieve that would be very small indeed [in fact, it's unlikely that the compiler given the above code would re-read player2 before comparing with 10 anyways].

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Mats

Code:

#include<iostream>
#include<conio.h>
#include<string>
#include<iomanip>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
    int point;
    int player1=0,player2=0;
    string name1,name2;
    cout<<"Enter first player name ";
    cin>>name1;
    cout<<"Enter the second player name ";
    cin>>name2;
    system("cls");
    
    cout<<"If "<<name1<<" wins a point press 1";
    cout<<"\nIf "<<name2<<" wins a point press 2";
    getch();
    
    system("cls");
    cout<<"Scoreboard"<<endl;
    cout<<name1<<setw(5)<<name2<<endl;
    cout<<player1<<setw(5)<<player2<<endl;
    getch();
    
    getch();
    system("cls");
    while((player1==11&&player2<10)||(player2==11&&player1<10));
    {
    cout<<"Enter point won by ";
    cin>>point;
    if(point==1)
    player1++;
    if(point==2)
    player2++;   
    cout<<"Scoreboard"<<endl;
    cout<<name1<<setw(5)<<name2<<endl;
    cout<<player1<<setw(5)<<player2<<endl;
    }
getch();
}

sorry for the silly mistake
and anyway the program terminates after i enter the first point!
is there anything else i should add or subtract to get a good output

Better (correct) Indentation would be good.

If your code exits when you enter the first point, it's OBVIOUSLY not correct, so you probably should fix that.

You also should fix the problem with "less than two point difference when first player reaches 11". If you do not cope with this, your program does not satisfy ALL of the requirements, and that would certainly reduce your total "score" for the program.

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Mats