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Lab 4 - 2 Player Tic Tac Toe
Purpose of this Lab:
The purpose of this lab is to get you used to networking and using sockets. (In our case there will
be a client and server on our local machine). The main libraries to be used is the sockets library
(socket), tkinter or pygame.
As for all labs this quarter you will need to ensure your code works using IDLE with the version
being used this quarter and refer to my lecture on sockets for a refresher on how to use sockets.
Introduction to the Lab :
For this lab, I would like you to use sockets to pass the player moves between the client and
server. Assuming our tic tac toe game uses a 3 x 3 board, we will use x/X and o/O for the values
that we will be passing back and forth. For those not familiar with Tic Tac Toe, it is a 2 player
game where one player's game piece is X and the second player's game piece is O (letter). Each
player takes a turn putting their game piece in one of the empty slots in the 3 by 3 board. First
place to get 3 of their game pieces that align wins. If the board has no empty slots and nobody
wins then the game ends in a tie.
Program Details:
You will create 3 new modules with the following details:
BoardClass (gameboard.py)
The board game will consist of the following public interface. (Note this module can be
imported and used by both player1 and player2 modules
The class should have a minimum of the following (you can add more if you need to):
Class Variables:
Players user name
User name of the last player to have a turn
Number of games played
Number of wins
Number of ties
Number of losses
Class Methods:
updateGamesPlayed()
Keeps track how many games have started
resetGameBoard()
Clear all the moves from game board
updateGameBoard()
Updates the game board with the player's move
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isWinner()
Checks if the latest move resulted in a win
Updates the wins and losses count
boardIsFull()
Checks if the board is full (I.e. no more moves to make - tie)
Updates the ties count
printBoard()
prints the current state of the board
printStats()
Prints the following each on a new line:
Prints the players user name
Prints the user name of the last person to make a move
prints the number of games
Prints the number of wins
Prints the number of losses
Prints the number of ties
Player 1 Module(Module Name: player1.py)
1. Player 1 will ask the user for the host information of player 2:
1. Prompt the user for the host name/IP address of player 2 they want to play with
2. Prompt the user for the port to use in order to play with player 2
2. Using that information they will attempt to connect to player 2
1. Upon successful connection they will send player 2 the their user name (just
alphanumeric user name with no special characters)
2. If the connection cannot be made then the user will be asked if they want to try again:
1. If the user enters 'y' then you will request the host information from the user again
2. If the user enters 'n' then you will end the program
3. Once player 1 receives player 2's username or if the users decides to play again (see step
4.2 below)
1. Player 1 will ask the user for their move using the current player display area.
2. and send it to player 2.
1. Player 1 will always be x/X
2. Player 1 will always send the first move to player 2
1. Each move will correspond to the area on the board they user clicks on. contain
the row and column corresponding to the location of where they want to put
their game piece.
3. Once player 1 sends their move they will wait for player 2's move.
4. Repeat steps 3.1.2 - 3.1.4 until the game is over (A game is over when a winner is
found or the board is full)
4. Once a game as finished (win or tie) the user will indicate if they want to play again using
the user interface be asked if they want to play again.
1. If the user enters 'y' or 'Y' then player 1 will send "Play Again" to player 2
2. If the user enters 'n' or 'N' then player 1 will send "Fun Times" to player 2 and end the
program
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1. Once the user is done player they will print all the statistics.
Player 2 Module(Module Name: player2.py)
1. Player 2 will accept incoming requests to start a new game
2. When a connection request is received and accepted, player 2 will wait for player 1 to send
their user name
3. Once player 2 receives player 1's user name, then player 2 will send "player2" as their
user name to player 1 and wait for player 1 to send their move.
1. Once player 2 receives player 1's move they will ask the user for their move and send it
to player 1 using the current player display area.
1. Each move will correspond to the area on the board they user clicks on. contain the
row and column corresponding to the location of where they want to put their game
piece.
2. Once player 2 sends their move they will wait for player 1's move.
3. Repeat steps 3.1 - 3.2 until the game is over (A game is over when a winner is found or
the board is full)
4. Once a game as finished (win or tie) player 2 will wait for player 1 to indicate if they want to
play again using the user interface be asked if they want to play again.
1. If player 1 wants to play again then player 2 will wait for player 1's first move.
2. If player 1 does not wants to play again then player 2 will print the statistics
User Interface:
You will create a user interface using either the PyGames library or the Tkinter library. The
user interface should include the following components:
A Tic Tac Toe board that allows the user to select their move by clicking on that
A dialog that asks the user if they want to play again
A display area where you display the reporting statistics when they are done and any
other printed information specified in the lab.
A text input area for the players name
An area where the user name of the current players turn will be displayed.
Quit button that allows the user to quit prior to finishing a game
Other Considerations:
All user inputs are case insensitive.
Hint: Maintain the current state of the board on both client and server side to determine if
someone won, lost or the board is full.