Tic Tac Toe
Play the game with python3 game.py
Requirements
This is the coding challenge I was given when I applied to 8th Light in August, 2018. The challenge required me to build a Tic Tac Toe command line app that met the following requirements:
- The game does not gracefully handle bad user input.
- In its current form, it’s supposed to be played at a difficulty level of “hard”, meaning the computer player cannot be beaten, but in reality you can beat it with the right moves.
- The game play left a lot to be desired. The user messages are lacking in many ways, which I’m sure you can tell.
- Allow the user to choose the level of difficulty (“easy” means the computer can easily be beaten, “medium” means it can be beaten but only with a series of intelligent moves, and “hard” means the it is unbeatable).
- Allow the user to choose the game type (human v. human, computer v. computer, human v. computer).
- Allow the user to choose which player goes first.
- Allow the user to choose with what “symbol” the players will mark their selections on the board (traditionally it’s “X” and “O”).
Development
The Tic Tac Toe application requires only the python3 standard library, but the tests are written using pytest.
pipenv install --dev # install the dev packages
pipenv run pytest # run the tests
pipenv run black . # run the formatter