Help making a game

I'm fairly new to C and I need help creating the game of GO. My first problem is drawing the board. I need a board that is 19x19 spaces with the rows and columns labeled 1-19. I have already assigned a char [19][19] to allow for all my spaces but cannot get the rows labeled. Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks

Here is what I have so far:

Code:

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "stdio.h"
#include "stdlib.h"
#include "process.h"
#include "windows.h"  // for System() call



#define TRUE  1
#define FALSE 0

char BoardSize [19][19];

int DrawBoard(int i, int j);

int _tmain()
{
	
	int DrawBoard;
	return 0;
}

int DrawBoard (int i, int j)
{
// Here we draw the board

	printf("\n\n       \n\n");
	printf("          Welcome to the Game of GO!!\n\n");
	printf(" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19\n");
	for ( int i = 0; i < BoardSize; i++ )
		{
			
			printf(" %2d ", (i + 1)); // Row Header
			for (int j=0; j < BoardSize; j++);
	}

Boardsize is an array, and the name of the array refers to the first element in that array. so i < Boardsize is comparing i to whatever the value of boardsize[0][0], might be.

I would use a define:

Code:

#define SIZE 19

//then use

for(row = 0; row < SIZE; row++) {
  printf("\n%3d ", row+1);         //row numbers
  for(col = 0; col < SIZE; col++) {
    //etc.
  }
}

Good luck with Go!

Originally Posted by Adak

Boardsize is an array, and the name of the array refers to the first element in that array. so i < Boardsize is comparing i to whatever the value of boardsize[0][0], might be.

Not quite, it refers to the address of the first element in the array. i < Boardsize is comparing the value in i to whatever the address of Boardsize[0][0] is.

admire your ambition, pass n play should b do-able wit both players agreeing state of play and life/death status of stones as in real game. AI is notoriously hard to model for Go though, due to many nuances.. chess becomes simpler as play progresses, in go it is the opposite.!

Still having problems with this code. I need to use an array or else it will not fill in all the blanks in the table, just the first column. right now I am having a problem with it saying that "j" is an undeclared identifier and I cannot figure out how to fix it. Please help out.

Code:

// Go Board.cpp : Defines the entry point for the console application.
//

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "stdio.h"
#include "stdlib.h"
#include "process.h"
#include "windows.h"  

#define BLACK_STONE  '*'
#define WHITE_STONE	 '0'
#define EMPTY		 ' '

#define BoardSize 19

void MakePlay (int i[19],int j[19]);


int main()
{
	
	printf("\n\n       \n\n");
	printf("          Welcome to the Game of GO!!\n\n");
	printf(" 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19\n");
	for ( int i = 0; i < BoardSize; i++ )

	{	
			printf(" %2d ", (i + 1)); // Row Header
				for (int j=0; j < BoardSize; j++);
				{
					MakePlay (i,j);
				}
				printf("\n");
			}


	return 0;
}

{
	MakePlay(int i[19], int j[19])

		printf("%c", BLACK_STONE);

}

The first thing you should do is DECIDE if you are going to write this in C or C++.

We have a game programming forum. Moved to game programming.

Well the class is for c programming but I am using a C++ compiler. I am very new to C and do not know the differences between c and c++. Also I am not too familiar with arrays and that is what the teacher wants us to do. Any help would be appreciated and thanks for moving it to the correct forum.

your compiler will most likely work with c or c++ projects, the problem you are probably having is that you selected a 'c source language' project, but your code contains elements of c++ that will not compile in a C console project, like declaring integers local to your for loop

In your compiler options, you should have a choice of what you want the default compilers to be. Choose .c for C, and .cpp for C++.

Couldn't interest you in something simpler, could I? Connect 4 is a strategy game for two that many universities use for competition in programming classes.

Unfortunately, there aren't that many GO players in English speaking forums.

Code:

				for (int j=0; j < BoardSize; j++);
				{
					MakePlay (i,j);
				}

The semicolon I've indicated in red will make the code do really bad things. In essence it's the entire body of the for loop, and the curly braces that follow are a random block that you've introduced. So what will happen is that the for loop will execute as you programmed it to, do nothing each time, and then the code in the block will execute once (with j == BoardSize, which will probably crash it!). Or it would if j existed outside of the loop; since it doesn't, you're getting that error message. The short of it is that you should get rid of that semicolon.

You're also trying to pass a single integer as an array of ints to your MakePlay function. That's not going to work. Maybe you could start by looking at some code like this:

Code:

/* This is C, not C++. */

#include <stdio.h>

#define WIDTH 40
#define HEIGHT 20

/** When you pass an array to a function, you must specify all but the leftmost
    dimension.
*/
void init_board(char board[][HEIGHT]);

void print_board(char board[][HEIGHT]);

int main() {
    char board[WIDTH][HEIGHT];
    
    init_board(board);
    
    print_board(board);
    
    return 0;
}

void init_board(char board[][HEIGHT]) {
    int x, y;  /* declaring variables inside for loops isn't C89 */
    for(y = 0; y < HEIGHT; y ++) {
        for(x = 0; x < WIDTH; x ++) {
            board[x][y] = '-';
        }
    }
}

void print_board(char board[][HEIGHT]) {
    int x, y;  /* declaring variables inside for loops isn't C89 */
    for(y = 0; y < HEIGHT; y ++) {
        for(x = 0; x < WIDTH; x ++) {
            printf("%c", board[x][y]);
        }
        printf("\n");
    }
}

That's just some code I whipped up that doesn't do anything very interesting, but it at least shows you the syntax for passing arrays to functions and accessing array indices.