Thread: Some help

I'm currently devoloping code for a version of the game Connect 4 that was assigned to me and right now I'm at the initial stages. My problem is getting the move from the player and putting it on the board. I thought I had it figured it, when I compile I get no errors, however when I go to execute I get an error from microsoft saying that the .exe file has encountered an error and needs to close. The games played with X's and O's so I made an array called board. If anyone can take a look at my code and let me know what I'm doing wrong I would appreciate it.

Here's what the first part of the assignment asks:

Declare a 1D array in the function main which records the
moves which have been made. (Hint: you know which player
made each move -- the even moves are made by X, the odd
moves by O.)
Declare a 2D array in the function main, which holds the
current state of the game.
Write functions clearScreen and showBoard which can be used
to redraw the board after each move. (Hint: showBoard must
be passed the board array as a parameter.)
Write a function getNextMove which:
prompts the user whose turn it is to enter a move (Hint:
getNextMove can figure this out if it knows which move
this is)
checks that it is a legal move (the column must be from
1 to 7, and the column can't already be full)
repeats the above until the player enters a legal move
returns the move
Write a loop in main which calls getNextMove, stores the
move in the board array and displays the current state of
the game, until the board is full.

Code:

#include<iostream>
#include<cstring>
#include<iomanip>
#include<fstream>

void clearScreen ();
void showBoard (char board[6][7]);
void initializeBoard (char board[6][7]);
void getNextMove(char board[6][7], char trackMove[], int MAXMOVES, int row, int column, int currentMove);

using namespace std;

int main ()

{

	const int MAXMOVES = 42;
	char board[6][7];
	char trackMove[MAXMOVES];
	int row = 5;
	int column;
	int currentMove;

	showBoard(board);
	
	for (currentMove = 0; currentMove < MAXMOVES; currentMove++)
	
	{
		getNextMove(board, trackMove, MAXMOVES, row, column, currentMove);
		board[row][column - 1] = trackMove[currentMove];
		clearScreen ();
		showBoard(board);


	}
	
	
	return 0;

}

//Function Definitions

void clearScreen ( void )
{
  for ( int i = 0; i < 50; i++ )
    cout<<'\n';
  cout<<flush;
}

void showBoard (char board[6][7])
{
	
	initializeBoard(board);

	
	cout<<setw(40)<<"  Connect 4"<<endl;
	cout<<setw(30)<<endl;
	cout<<setw(30)<<"| "<<board[0][0]<<" "<<board[0][1]<<" "<<board[0][2]<<" "<<board[0][3]<<" "<<board[0][4]<<" "<<board[0][5]<<" "<<board[0][6]<<" |"<<endl;
	cout<<setw(30)<<"| "<<board[1][0]<<" "<<board[1][1]<<" "<<board[1][2]<<" "<<board[1][3]<<" "<<board[1][4]<<" "<<board[1][5]<<" "<<board[1][6]<<" |"<<endl;
	cout<<setw(30)<<"| "<<board[2][0]<<" "<<board[2][1]<<" "<<board[2][2]<<" "<<board[2][3]<<" "<<board[2][4]<<" "<<board[2][5]<<" "<<board[2][6]<<" |"<<endl;
	cout<<setw(30)<<"| "<<board[3][0]<<" "<<board[3][1]<<" "<<board[3][2]<<" "<<board[3][3]<<" "<<board[3][4]<<" "<<board[3][5]<<" "<<board[3][6]<<" |"<<endl;
	cout<<setw(30)<<"| "<<board[4][0]<<" "<<board[4][1]<<" "<<board[4][2]<<" "<<board[4][3]<<" "<<board[4][4]<<" "<<board[4][5]<<" "<<board[4][6]<<" |"<<endl;
	cout<<setw(30)<<"| "<<board[5][0]<<" "<<board[5][1]<<" "<<board[5][2]<<" "<<board[5][3]<<" "<<board[5][4]<<" "<<board[5][5]<<" "<<board[5][6]<<" |"<<endl;
	cout<<setw(44)<<"  _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "<<endl;
	cout<<setw(44)<<"  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "<<endl;
	cout<<endl;
	cout<<endl;
	cout<<endl;
	cout<<endl;
}

void initializeBoard (char board[6][7])
{
	for(int row = 0; row < 6; row++)
	for(int col = 0; col < 7; col++)
		board[row][col] = ' ';
}

void getNextMove(char board[6][7], char trackMove[], int MAXMOVES, int row, int column, int currentMove)
{
	
		
	if (currentMove % 2 == 0)
		{
			cout<<"Player 1 make your move";
			cout<<endl;
			cout<<endl;
			cout<<"Enter a column (1-7):  ";			
			cin>>column;
			cout<<endl;
			cout<<endl;
			while (!(column <=7 && column >=1))
			{
				cout<<"Please enter a legal move!  A number between 1-7 ";
				cin>>column;
				cout<<endl;
			}
			trackMove[currentMove] = 'X';
			row--;
		}

	else
		{
			cout<<"Player 2 make your move.";
			cout<<endl;
			cout<<endl;
			cout<<"Enter a column (1-7):  ";			
			cin>>column;
			cout<<endl;
			cout<<endl;
			while (!(column <=7 && column >=1))
			{
				cout<<"Please enter a legal move!  A number between 1-7 ";
				cin>>column;
				cout<<endl;
			}
			trackMove[currentMove] = 'O';
			row--;
			
			
		}

}

You didn't initialize "column".
But it still doesn't work.

gg