Thread: Help me making a tic tac toe program ( and understanding arrays )

This is the exercise I'm doing:

Write a two-player tic-tac-toe game, allowing two humans to play against each other; use
enums when possible to represent the values of the board.


But right now I'm more interested in using arrays in this tic-tac-toe program.

So here's the code I've came up so far:

Code:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>


using namespace std;


int board[3][3];
void startGAME();


string player1;
string player2;


int main ()
{   
	


    cout << "You're now playing tic tac toe. \n";
	cout << "Player1 name: ";
	getline (cin, player1);
	cout << endl;
	cout << "Player2 name: ";
	getline (cin, player2 );
	cout << endl;


	cout << "Start game? y/n ";
	string yesORno;
	getline (cin, yesORno );
	if (yesORno == "yes" )
	{	startGAME();      }
	else if (yesORno == "no" )
	{
		cout << "Exiting game... \n";
		system ("pause");
		return 0;
	}


	else 
	{	cout << "Invalid choice. \n";   }






	


 system("pause");
 return 0;




}






int board[3][3]
{ 
	 cout << [0][0] << "|" << [0][1] << "|" << [0][2] << endl;
	 cout << "_____"<< "|" << "_____"<< "|" << "_____"<< endl;
	 cout << [1][0] << "|" << [1][1] << "|" << [1][2] << endl;
	 cout << "_____"<< "|" << "_____"<< "|" << "_____"<< endl;
	 cout << [2][0] << "|" << [2][1] << "|" << [2][2] << endl;


}


void startGAME()
{
	cout << "Player1 take O and Player2 take X. \n";


	int turn, gameOVER(true), gameWIN, gameDRAW, row, column;


	


	do
	{
		cout << "Player1 first. Choose which row and which column. \n";


		board[3][3];
		
		cout << "Row: ";
		cin  >> row;


		cout << "Column: ";
		cin >> column;


		for ( row = 0 ; row < 3 ; row++)
		{
			for ( column = 0 ; column < 3 ; column++ )
			{


				board [row][column] = 'X';
			}




		}
	}


	while (!gameOVER);
}

I got this compiler error:

1>------ Build started: Project: 42, Configuration: Debug Win32 ------
1> 424.cpp
1>c:\users\user\documents\visual studio 2010\projects\42\42\424.cpp(52): error C2470: 'board' : looks like a function definition, but there is no parameter list; skipping apparent body
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

Alright thanks... I think I'm not through with arrays yet.

And for the player names I thought I could use them when they change turn. Anyway I really should read more on arrays. Sorry.