Simple Tic-Tac-Toe in Python
My learning of Python continued today with me coding a simple Tic-Tac-Toe client. It is very dumb, the computer always plays randomly and currently has no intelligence to it. But I wrote it from scratch with no outside resource or code segments. Doing things like this is always a great feeling for me, learning something is one of my favorite things to do.
Here is my Python code:
from random import randint
board = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
legalplays = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]
def drawboard(board):
print(board[0],"|",board[1],"|",board[2])
print("---------")
print(board[3],"|",board[4],"|",board[5])
print("---------")
print(board[6],"|",board[7],"|",board[8])
def checkboard(board):
patterns = [[0,1,2],
[3,4,5],
[6,7,8],
[0,3,6],
[1,4,7],
[2,5,8],
[0,4,8],
[2,4,6]]
for pattern in patterns:
if board[pattern[0]] == board[pattern[1]] and board[pattern[0]] == board[pattern[2]]:
return board[pattern[0]]
return 0
def computerPlay(board):
availableplays = []
for i in board:
if i in legalplays:
availableplays.append(i-1);
moves = len(availableplays)
move = randint(0,moves-1)
return availableplays[move]
playfirst = randint(1,2)
if playfirst == 1:
#Computer Plays First
play = randint(0,8)
board[play] = "O";
noresult = True
while noresult:
drawboard(board)
player = input("Choose where to put your X: ")
if player.isnumeric():
player = int(player) - 1
if player