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Jon,

I think actually, 100 lines of code sounds pretty good for a program like
this.  I hope you've got enough whitespace and comments throughout the code to
make it readable and easy enough to follow. 

I don't suppose you'd mind sending me a copy of the code or posting it here -
maybe someone could offer some optimization tips based on what you've already
got written.

Jeff
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Jon Watson wrote:
> 
> Hey All;
> 
> I am in my second semester of info systems at college and have to write the
> age old
> program of tic-tac-toe.
> 
> There is a requirement that the program will determine the computers move
> as follows:
> 
> The computer is always 'X'
> Scan all rows, columns and both diagonals to determine if there are 2 X's
> in any one of them.
> If there is, place an 'X' in the vacant spot, declare a win and ask the
> user if they want to play again.
> 
> If there isn't,
> Scan all rows, columns and both diagonals to determine is there are 2 O's
> in any one of them.
> If there is, still place an 'X' in the vacant spot to block a potential win
> by the user.
> If neither of these situations apply, generate a random move.
> 
> My question is this:
> 
> I currentl have:
> 
> One loop to search rows for X's
> One loop to search columns for X's
> One loop to search the diagonals for X's
> One loop to search rows for O's
> One loop to search columns for O's
> One loop to search diagonals for O's.
> 
> This is quite a bit of code. I thought about simply searching the board for
> two successive squares
> that aren't blank, but that won't work because I don't want it to flag an X
> and an O in one row
> as a potential win or block, so it seems it has to search for each
> individually.
> 
> Finally, the question! Any ideas on how to compact this code so that it
> doesn't take up
> 100 lines?
> 
> I would also love to incorporate this into the function that searches
> whether or not the human has
> won based on it's last move, but I think I can handle that myself.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Jon
> 
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