https://sourceforge.net/p/csjava/feature-requests/12/2005-05-09T22:46:04ZRecent changes to 12: Reversi board2005-05-09T22:46:04Z2005-05-09T22:46:04ZToby Donaldsonhttps://sourceforge.net/u/tobydonaldson/https://sourceforge.net31ec2d3d19726b103ad78a80385031d3320d38fe

<div class="markdown_content"><p>Do you know the game reversi? It turns out that’s a<br /> good programming project for beginning courses.</p> <p>What you could do is make a class that displays an<br /> 8-by-8 Reversi board. It should let you set any square<br /> to be either a black piece, a white piece, or blank.<br /> The pieces could be just black and white circles; or<br /> even better, they could be generic icons that<br /> programmer using the class could set to be whatever<br /> they want. But in any case, the black and white circles<br /> should always be available to use.</p> <p>Of course, the nicer the board looks, the better. It<br /> only needs to be 8-by-8, but if you can get it to be<br /> n-by-n for any reasonable value of n, that would be good.</p> <p>The board should should also have a scoreboard showing<br /> the number of black and white pieces on the board. I<br /> would imagine it should implement this interface:</p> <p>interface BoardInterface {<br /> void setWhitePiece(int row, int col);<br /> void setBlackPiece(int row, int col);<br /> void setEmpty(int row, int col);<br /> int getNumBlackPieces();<br /> int getNumWhitePieces();<br /> int getNumEmptySquares();<br /> }</p> <p>The board doesn’t play the game or implement any rules<br /> for placing pieces. That’s for another class that will<br /> be written later, e.g. by the students in the course.<br /> If you like, after you’re finished this, you could<br /> implement Reversi itself using the board, and create a<br /> good artificially intelligent player. </p></div>