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For placing the marker on a given position, define a function handle_turn() in which pass 3 parameters; board, marker and position. In this board would be the tic-tac-toe grid. Marker would be X and O. Position would be the spot where the marker would be placed on the board. Equate marker to the position on the board. Callum gets home one day to find Jude and Lynette exchanging blows. To stop all three children from fighting, Dad tells Jude and Callum why Lynette is ill: three years ago, she and her Cross boyfriend were beaten for being in an interracial relationship. One night, Lynette leaves the dinner table to go on a walk. Hours later, police come to the house and deliver the news that Lynette was hit by a bus and killed. They say it was an accident, but Callum discovers a letter from Lynette under his pillow admitting she committed suicide. He vows to keep this secret. At about the same time, Sephy’s mother attempts to commit suicide but survives. Here we set the counts of each possible state per win path for use by __computer_move_genius as described above. __find_empty_square

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The first day of school is horrible for Sephy and Callum both. A mob outside protests the nought students, and Sephy gets the mob to disperse by screaming that her classmates are acting like “blankers.” Callum is hurt and offended, so Sephy agrees not to use the slur again. That's the NaC class finished so now we can move on to writing a UI. As I mentioned above I have written a console UI with curses but the NaC class has no user interface code so can be used with any library or framework, for example PyGame, Tkinter, PyQt or whatever.Six months after Lynette dies, Callum and Sephy decide to meet at the mall—but Jude tells Callum very seriously not to go. Suspecting the worst, Callum races for the mall and drags Sephy out—just before a bomb explodes, killing seven people. Enraged when she realizes that Dad and Jude were involved, Mum slaps Dad so hard she breaks her finger. At the hospital, so she can receive treatment, Mum allows the nurse to scan Callum and Jude’s ID cards, which are linked to their fingerprints. That night, to help herself sleep, Sephy tries wine for the first time. One hot afternoon, Mother makes Sephy put on an expensive dress to go to some undisclosed location. Sephy enters Hewmett Prison extremely confused and doesn’t realize she’s at Dad’s execution until guards bring him out to the scaffold. However, just before Dad is killed, the prison governor stays the execution. When Mum and Callum get to see Dad hours later, Dad says he’s done fighting. Sephy is extremely disturbed by the day’s events—and is then confused when she learns Mother paid the McGregors’ legal fees. She goes to bed and cries herself to sleep. In idiot mode the computer searches at random for an empty square to place its "O" in. __computer_move_average

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Sephy watches the case unfold on the news from home, and she knows Dad is innocent. Callum is suspended from school for no reason, but he’s somewhat hopeful about Dad’s prospects when an anonymous benefactor—presumably Sephy—pays for one of the best lawyers in the country, Kelani Adams, to represent Dad. But though Dad pleads not guilty to all the charges, and though Kelani mounts an impressive case, the jury finds Dad guilty of all the charges.

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Start making the tic-tac-toe grid by defining display_board()function, which will display it in a grid format when printed def display_board(board): If it is starting the game the computer will always select the centre square. Otherwise it uses a list of win paths which I'll describe in a moment to find the optimum square. The stages it goes through are: This is the other function passed to the NaC class and is called when the game is over. The winner argument is "X" for the player, "O" for the computer or " " for a draw. The function uses this to create a suitable message which is then displayed in an orange box in the middle of the board.

Naughts and Crosses with Python - Medium Naughts and Crosses with Python - Medium

The average level uses either idiot level or genius level at random with 50:50 probability. __computer_move_genius I have been learning Python for a while now. As one of my first mini-projects I designed a simple tic-tac-toe game. It is a common 2-player game where one player plays crosses (X) and the other plays naughts(O), each player taking turns to play. The player who gets three marks on the board in a row, column, or diagonally, wins. In case neither of the players is able to get this, the game then ends in a draw. The steps to create this game on Python using some of the basic functions are described in the succeeding steps. Step 1: Grid Board DesignImport random library to decide which player will start the game. It is a built-in library in Python, which is used to generate random numbers between two given numbers. Define a function first_move() to generate a random number using random_randint()function between 0 and 1 to decide which player is going to start first. If the random number is equal to 1, then player 1 will start the game. If it is 0 then player 2 will start the game. import random def first_move():