A dirt simple battleship tournament engine.
The engine expects the processes to communicate over a socket. When the engine runs your process, it will send a single command line argument, which is the port on which you should connect to.
At that point, the engine will randomly determine who goes first, and send each program a message on stdin,
0, opponent_name\n
where the first character tells whether you go first (0) or second (1), and the second string is your opponents name.
Each binary must then report an ascii representation of a 10x10 game board with:
A for the aircraft carrier (length 5),
B for a battle ship (length 4)
S for a submarine (length 3)
D for a destroyer (length 3)
P for a patrol boat (length 2)
0 for an empty square
for example, an example board would be:
0000000000\n
00000000PP\n
00B0000000\n
00B000A000\n
00B000ASSS\n
00BDDDA000\n
000000A000\n
000000A000\n
0000000000\n
0000000000\n
At that point, if it is your turn, you must report your guess as a comma separated tuple, 0-indexed, e.g.
0, 5\n
The engine will report back on the socket, either H\n if a hit,
M\n if a miss, SX\n if you sunk a ship, where X is one of the
boat characters above, and W\n if you won the game.
If it is not your turn, the engine will notify you of your opponents guess in the form a comma separated tuple
0, 5\n
or, if you just lost, you will recieve a single L\n:
if you are running this locally, it uses the following external packages: