This question is as i seen it playing it with daughter.
: Was wondering if you could write a program in C not C++,for a game my daughter wants that she found in school.
: I know you guys will have the abilty to do this if you have the time.
: (Not so good at tricky program like this)
:
: Its a small program that will play a game called find the hurkle.
: The game consists of trying to locate an object(the "HURKLE")within a grid of predetermined size.The program should generate two random numbers to represent co-ordinates on a 10 by 10 grid. The user should then be promted to find the coordinates of the hurkle(i.e. a row and column number).
: The messages, "HIT - You Found It !" or "Bad Luck - You Missed", Should be diplayed,depending upon the coordanates given by user. If the user misses,the program should give the user a clue as to the direction to try as their next guess, i.e. "UP", "DOWN","LEFT","RIGHT", or in combinations e.g."DOWN LEFT". The user should be allowed a maximum of te attempts to find the hurkle.

This game is not all that difficult to program, but I do not know C or C++, but I could write it in either Java and send you the source and compiled file, or in Visual Basic and send you an exe file.

Let me know.



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I told you the answer on the c/c++ programming board.

: I told you the answer on the c/c++ programming board.
:
I tried both boards,,thanks for you help.
I'm struggling to run your code it has bugs in it not sure where.
I got devcpp,and TurboC++, It won't run on either of them.
I came up with one of my own,,no offence.
Its a bit more easy to program ,,see what you think.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MAXROWS 10
#define MAXCOLS 10
#define MAXTRYS 10

int main()
{
int x_coord, y_coord, attempts, i, j;

x_coord = rand() % MAXROWS+1;
y_coord = rand() % MAXCOLS+1;

for(attempts = 0; attempts < MAXTRYS; attempts++)
{
printf("\nEnter your co-ordinates ( row then column) > ");
scanf ("%d %d", &i, &j);

if( i == x_coord && j == y_coord)
{
printf("\nYou hit the target!!");
printf("\nYou took %d guesses\n", attempts + 1);
break;
}
printf("\nBad luck...You missed try...");
if(x_coord < i)
printf("Down ");
else
if(x_coord > i)
printf("Up ");
if(y_coord > j)
printf("Right ");
else
if(y_coord < j)
printf("Left ");
}
if(attempts == MAXTRYS)
printf("\nToo many tries. Target was at Row %d Col %d\n", x_coord, y_coord);
return 0;
}

Howdy,

I tried you're code and it worked perfect with mine compiler. I use Borland C++ 5.02(No command line shit!) . I changed some stuff so I looks better. If you still have problems, send me a mail and I will send you the executable. Maybe you can tell me the what errors you get. Here is the code

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <conio.h>

#define MAXROWS 10
#define MAXCOLS 10
#define MAXTRYS 10

int main()
{
   int x_coord, y_coord, attempts, i, j;

   x_coord = rand() % MAXROWS+1;
   y_coord = rand() % MAXCOLS+1;

   for(attempts = 0; attempts < MAXTRYS; attempts++)
   {
      printf("\nEnter row   : "
      scanf("%d", &i);
      printf("\nEnter column: "
      scanf("%d", &j);

      if( i == x_coord && j == y_coord)
      {
         printf("\nYou hit the target!!");
	 printf("\nYou took %d guesses\n", attempts + 1);
         break;
      }

      printf("\nBad luck...You missed! Try ");
      if(x_coord < i)
         printf("Down ");
      else if(x_coord > i)
      	    printf("Up ");

      if(y_coord > j)
	    printf("Right ");
      else if(y_coord < j)
	    printf("Left ");
   }

   if(attempts == MAXTRYS)
   	printf("\nToo many tries. Target was at Row %d Col %d\n", x_coord, y_coord);

   getch();
   return 0;
}

You might want to remove the getch(); statement. I just put it there to see if the output is correct. Tell me what you think. I didn't do much to change but it works perfect on my compiler.

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DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK... creative try though.

: DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK... creative try though.
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Boy that comment was sure nice

I know hardly anything about programming but really want to put some of my 3D models in to games.

I hope I dont get comments like that when I ask questions that someone might think is stupid

: DO YOUR OWN HOMEWORK... creative try though.
:
Boy that comment was sure nice

I know hardly anything about programming but really want to put some of my 3D models in to games.

I hope I dont get comments like that when I ask questions that someone might think is stupid