README.md

Hangman in Java - for code sparring.

This program tries to solve a game of hangman. It doesn't do a very good job - it's your job to fork it and create a new solution for it.

How To

Fork this repo then clone it. To run the tests:

mvn test

Tough stuff. To run the program:

mvn package
java -jar target/Hangman-1.jar

When you run the program you'll see something like this:

Erics-MacBook-Pro:HangmanJava paytonrules$ java -jar target/Hangman-1.jar
Current Clue Is _ _ _ _ _
Current Clue Is _ _ _ _ _
Current Clue Is _ _ _ _ _
Current Clue Is _ _ _ _ _
Current Clue Is _ _ _ _ _
Current Clue Is _ _ _ _ _
Current Clue Is _ _ _ _ _
Current Clue Is _ _ _ _ _
Current Clue Is _ _ _ _ _
com.hangman.Game Over

What this means is is that the clue length was five characters, and your player successfully guessed....nothing. To see why let's take a look at YourPlayer.java.

public class YourPlayer implements Player {
  @Override
  public char GetGuess(List<Character> clue) {
    return 'a';
  }
}

That's right YourPlayer - regardless of the clue - will guess the letter a. If it got a right, it guessed a. Wrong? a. It's a pretty stupid player.

So to complete this exercise you will need to delete return 'a' - and instead return better guesses. How? Well look the parameter:

List<Character> clue. The clue is exactly what you're seeing on screen. It is an array of characters where the '_' character means that you haven't gotten that location correct yet.

This stumps people so let's go through an example. Let's assume the secret word is "aaron". The first time GetGuess is called it will get:

['_', '_', '_', '_', '_']

YourPlayer will guess 'a'. The next time GuetGuess is called it will look like:

['a', 'a', '_', '_', '_']

Naturally YourPlayer will guess 'a' again, because it is stupid. To complete this exercise you need to make YourPlayer good at hangman.

Tips

• Maybe keep track of what you've guessed.
• Vowels are good.
• Your testing WILL BE GRADED!