blastwind/hic-hac-hoe

Play Tic Tac Toe in terminal. Implementing multiplayer networking soon.

About me

• Short Term (Before my graduation in June 2024)

  • Work through Software Foundations
  • Do some CS undergrad research
    • (Update Oct 2023): Presented ACER: An AST-based Call Graph Generator Framework at SCAM 2023, colocated with ICSME.
    • (Update Oct 2023): Writing honors thesis Understanding LLMs trained on Functional Programming Code utilizing Mechanistic Interpretability.

• Online Prescence

  • Blog
  • Youtube
  • Linkedin

• Really good stuff:

  • Cognitive Loads in Programming
  • Disco Elysium
  • How to Beat Procrastination

Times I removed/added a goal: 4

hic-hac-hoe's Issues

Initial Dummy UI

• Output a 3x3 grid with O's and X's!

Winning and keeping score

It's time for players to win.

• add _stats to Game. _stats contains player1 and player2 scores, and matches played.
• Display stats in widget.
• On win, award one point. Tying does nothing. Both refreshes the board.

Backlog

Interesting* things I want to try out

• Learn about how to distribute haskell packages, deliver this game so it can run without ghc.
• Refactor using lenses.
• Pattern match on record fields directly. https://joshbohde.com/blog/pattern-matching-on-records-in-haskell/
• Refactor adding two-dimensional tuples with this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69422567/add-elements-of-two-tuples-in-haskell
• Refactor direction vector with Map
• Refactor zip with enumerate
• Learn about ghc profiling and profile commit 43336e2 against 0c4c428. These two are consecutive commits, but the latter seemed a lot slower in ghci, probably due to the huge refactoring of nested data types and excessive pattern matching.
• Anyway to suspend drawing thread during pause screen?
• Support more than 1 player mode
• multiplayer networking

Highlight cell and move cell with arrow keys

The app needs a new field! It can keep track of the location of the current cell to highlight with a highlightLocation :: (Int, Int) record field, defaulting to (0, 0).

Tasks:

• First, for highlightLocation (x, y), actually highlight it!
• Then, make arrow events update highlightLocation.

Deliverables

This is an informal list of things I want to implement.

1. Two modes: 1v1, player vs bot Bots move randomly.
2. Two screens: Home screen and play screen.
3. Home screen has "play 1v1", "play vs bots", and "quit" options. Users navigate these using ↑ and ↓.
4. Play screen is where you see a tic tae toe board and play. You choose a move by using the arrows keys and then pressing enter to plant your move. You can see where you will plant your move thanks to a highlighted boarder.
5. In the play screen, you can type q + enter to go back to the home screen and r + enter to restart.

Maintainer is a nerd

Hi the current maintainer of this repo is a nerd. Please fix asap.

Users can make move.

Currently, user can control the highlighted cell to move around. Time to allow users can actually make moves

• Display _curPlayer in a widget.
• Pressing Enter actually plants the move.
• Unsuccessful moves are ignored
• Successful moves also switches _curPlayer.

UI Finalizations

• There should be a little → that shows which option in the home screen we are on
• Pressing Esc in the play screen displays the exit menu (two options: continue or exit).
• The exit menu should also have the little →.
• Challenge: Flicker the little →. I think I can use forkIO and bricks.bChan to do this.