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Tic Tac Toe console program

This is not bad for a programmer as new to C++ as you have said you are. Keep up the good work! With that said, here are some ideas on how you might be able to improve your program. Don't abuse <...
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Tic Tac Toe vs PC

Here are some things that may help you improve your code. Fix your formatting The indentation, in particular, seems rather random. It may be that it's an artifact of posting the code, but it doesn'...
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Tic Tac Toe in C++14

Here are some observations and suggestions that may help you improve your program. Check your spelling If you run a spell check on your comments, you'll find a number of things such as "peice" ...
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First Program Tic-Tac-Toe

Here are some things that may help you improve your code. Use the required #includes The code uses std::string which means ...
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4x4 tic tac toe

Your code is quite good for someone who started 10 days ago. Here are a couple of improvements you should consider: Your code is hard to read due to inadequate indentation and spacing. Take a look at ...
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A tic-tac-toe game in C

Unfortunately, it seems like you have stumbled across an older version of The C Programming Language which described a dialect of C now dubbed K&R C. K&R C was superseded by ANSI C (C89), and ...
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Tic-Tac-Toe for the terminal

First of all: nice work! It's easy to read and understand. Program organization It's very good that you split the task to small functions. Reading the body of main...
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Simple C# console Tic Tac Toe program

Bug The same player can place its sign on a allready taken (by him) place. You have defended against this for the opponent although you use inappropriate language here. You should just check if the ...
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Simple Tic Tac Toe game inside terminal

On the whole this is nicely done for an application made during your first week of C programming. The functions are generally reasonably-sized, the code is comprehensible and the design decisions are ...
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Tic-Tac-Toe code using c#

Choosing good identifiers When I see a name like options I think of something a player can choose from like "single player" (i.e., play against the ...
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Check for a win on the board

What you've done here is listed all possible checks, but you've compiled it into a single method. Ideally, you should split this up into separate tasks, as there are three categories of similar checks:...
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Ncurses Tic Tac Toe with simplistic AI

Avoid numbered variables ...
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Simple C# console Tic Tac Toe program

OK .. I took a look at your code. Let's do this one step at a time... I'm using VisualStudio with Resharper Installed. This causes a big chunk of your code to grey out. The if clause ...
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Ncurses Tic Tac Toe with simplistic AI

Here are a number of things that may help you improve your program. Eliminate global variables where practical Having routines dependent on global variables makes it that much more difficult to ...
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Tic Tac Toe vs PC

Inconsistent Indentation The code in Main is not indented. The code in PC_turn is not properly indented. The code in ...
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Simple C# console Tic Tac Toe program

First of all, why pos has 10 elements and everywhere you counting from 1 to 9? Let this array to have 9 elements and count from 0. You must rewrite the ...
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4x4 tic tac toe

For coding since 10 days, this program is really impressive. If I had to learn something new and complicated as C++, I'd probably make many more mistakes. One thing that is always tricky is input and ...
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Tic-Tac-Toe program

Don’t write using namespace std;. Read through and bookmark the C++ Standard Guidelines. Numbers I note later are citations from this. ...
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I made Tic Tac Toe in C

Please check it if you can, and give your opinion! Enable more warnings ...
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A Simple Tic-Tac-Toe Game

Put all code in functions. This is what experienced programmers do, so you would be wise to adopt the practice even if you don't fully appreciate all of the reasons yet. After that change, you'll end ...
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Minimax implementation of tic tac toe

Sorry, but that someone is probably right. At the same time, thanks for being thus brave and asking on how to improve here. It's not so simple to give feedback in such a scenario, since there are so ...
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Tic Tac Toe console program

There's a typo in this line: }else if(arr[1]+arr[4]+arr[7]==3*10||arr[1]+arr[7]+arr[7]==3*11){ //win condition outputs the winner player's name for all I think ...
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Python: Tic Tac Toe Game

I'll point out some useful starting points for improving your code. I would additionally recommend looking at some other implementations, for some further inspiration regarding logic and code ...
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Object-oriented programming for tic-tac-toe (only 66 lines) in Python

Your Board class is handling too much at present. It's managing the following items: The board itself Whose move it is Making moves for either player Printing the ...
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Tic-Tac-Toe game in C++

Avoid using namespace std; If you are coding professionally you probably should get out of the habit of using the ...
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Simple Tic-Tac-Toe with Minimax Algorithm

Here are some things that may help you improve your code. First, yes, you implemented the minimax algorithm correctly, but there's an easy improvement you can make that I'll show later. Avoid magic ...
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Tic-Tac-Toe for the terminal

There's two things I'd change to simplify your code: Use a two dimensional array. Sure you can do the conversion from a 2d position to 1d easily, but the compiler can do and ...
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TicTacToe with AI in C

General Observations I see a lot of good programming practices followed here already, keep up the good work. Most of the functions are small and follow the Single Responsibility Principle. Use Library ...
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