racybabeuk
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I have to produce a hangman game for two players. Player one inputs a secret word between 6 and 10 characters long. The secret word is copied to a marker board displaying asterisks instead of the letters. Player two has to guess the secret word. For each correct guess the marker board is updated to show the correct letter replacing the asterisk. For each incorrect guess a piece of the hangman is displayed (9 pieces consisting of lines of stars for each body part).
The game ends when player two correctly guesses the secret word or incorrectly guesses 9 times.
I have started with the pseudocode and once I know it is correct i will then produce a flow chart before finally coding the program.
Could someone please look over my pseudocode and point out any obvious errors I may have made. For instance, I am not sure if it is legitimate to use an if.. then.. else construct nested in a repeat.. until construct? Or will the program never check for an incorrect guess but keep looping round checking for correct guesses until the game is over?
I have to produce a hangman game for two players. Player one inputs a secret word between 6 and 10 characters long. The secret word is copied to a marker board displaying asterisks instead of the letters. Player two has to guess the secret word. For each correct guess the marker board is updated to show the correct letter replacing the asterisk. For each incorrect guess a piece of the hangman is displayed (9 pieces consisting of lines of stars for each body part).
The game ends when player two correctly guesses the secret word or incorrectly guesses 9 times.
I have started with the pseudocode and once I know it is correct i will then produce a flow chart before finally coding the program.
Could someone please look over my pseudocode and point out any obvious errors I may have made. For instance, I am not sure if it is legitimate to use an if.. then.. else construct nested in a repeat.. until construct? Or will the program never check for an incorrect guess but keep looping round checking for correct guesses until the game is over?
Code:
A pseudo code description of my solution algorithm
Play_hangman
Items of Interest: player one, player two, secret word, letter guess, word marker, hangman pieces, incorrect count, correct count.
Set player one
Set player one
Set secret word as an array greater than 6 and less than 10
Set letter guess
Set word marker as an array of * characters to length of secret word
Set hangman pieces as 9 in a separate function to be called
Set incorrect count to zero
Set correct count to zero
Output message prompt for name of player one
Get name of player one
Output message prompt for named player one to input secret word between 6 and 10 characters length
Get secret word
Output message prompt for name of player two
Get name of player two
Repeat
Output message prompt for named player two to input
letter guess
Get letter guess
IF letter guess is a letter in the secret word Then
Output updated word marker with letter guess in correct position replacing the *
increment correct guess counter + 1
Until correct guess is equal to secret word length
Output message You win
Else
Output message prompt that the letter is not in the secret word
Output hangman piece on screen
increment incorrect guess counter + 1
Until incorrect guess is equal to nine
Output message You lose
Endif
END