Description
The purpose of the second program is to continue refining our programming
skills in C++ and practice using arrays of characters, the subscript operator, the
cstring library, and functions with arguments. Our goal is to create programs
with a small functions where main delegates to a series of functions where the
real work takes place. In this programming assignment, you are not allowed to
use global variables. Avoid using break (unless working with a switch statement).
Limit your functions to no more than 20 statements of code (for executable
statements… not counting variables, blank lines, lines with just curly brackets, or
comments).
Program Assignment:
In program #2 we will write another game. This time, it will be a word game.
The first player will type in phrase, attempting to hide a word inside of the
phrase that the other player will guess. The second player gets 5 chances to guess
what the word is that is hidden within the phrase. They get to see the phrase. For
each turn, a player gets 10 points. Each time they incorrectly guess a word, 2
points are deducted from their score. After either guessing correctly or
incorrectly 5 times, the players switch turns. The second player now gets 10
points, and so on. The player with the highest score wins.
Here are the details about this game:
1. The first player enters in a long phrase (no more than 80 characters) along
with the correct hidden word (no more than 10 characters). Hide the
correct word quickly by clearing the screen.
2. The second player guesses, by typing in a word (no more than 10
characters); the second player should be able to see the phrase (so echo it
out)
a. The guessed word should NOT be case sensitive (so if the player
guesses “HI” and the letters “hi” exist in the phrase, then it should
match!)
CS162 Winter 2015 Program #2
3. Your program will double check that the word entered actually exists in
the original phrase. Spaces and tabs should be ignored.
a. If it doesn’t exist in the phrase, the second player automatically
loses their turn and all 10 points. So if the phrase was “Hello
world” and the word “help” is guessed. “help” does not exist in the
phrase, and the player doesn’t get any more chances. Time to
switch players (after taking away their 10 points!)
b. If the word does exist, then it is compared to the correct word. If it
is a match, we switch turns
i. An extra bonus point is awarded if spaces were ignored
between characters in the phrase to compose the word. For
example, if the phrase was “The elf was small” and the
guessed word is “eel”, the player will get an extra point!
Things you should know…as part of your program:
1. Make sure to prompt the user for any input requested. Make sure it is clear from
your prompts what the user is expected to do.
2. Use the cstring library with strlen to determine the length of the words entered.
3. Use the subscript operator [] to match letters, using a loop (recommend for loops)
4. You may not use any global variables in this program!
5. You may not use the string class – instead use arrays of characters with cstrings
6. Make sure to use C++’s I/O (iostream library) for your input and output.
7. After each input operation, make sure to use cin.ignore to remove the delimiters!
8. FUNCTIONS are required for this assignment
To get full credit for the programming portion, you will need to:
1. Turn in an algorithm written using full English sentences (it may be provided in
outline form, paragraph form, or graphical (such as a data flow diagram)).
2. Program using a consistent style of indentation, header comments for each
function, inline comments for each major block of code
3. Make sure to put your name in your program
4. Submit an electronic copy of your .cpp file as an attached file to the dropbox on
D2L (go to: http://d2l.pdx.edu/ to login). Make sure to hit the submit button
after uploading your files (otherwise they will be lost)
5. As a backup, please also email your work (as attached file(s)) to karlaf@pdx.edu
