100DaysOfCode

Writing this write up took considerably longer than actually writing the code.

I saw a post once commenting how the world doesn’t need another version of Tic-Tac-Toe made in Python. Well that’s too bad, because here comes another one! I keep telling myself I want to make a slightly more detailed run through some of my code writing, just for the sake of “This is the process,” so let’s see if I can make a go of it for this round. Funny enough, this isn’t the first time I’ve set out to make TicTacToe on my own accord, I once started working out doing it in C++ once, mostly because I wanted to see if I could build a super tough algorithm for a computer AI playing TicTacToe.

This whole post will contain a whole lot of somewhat repetitious and incremental Python code, but maybe it will be helpful to some newbie coders to get a better idea of how to step through what you’re writing and how to break up and plan different parts of your code.

The first step here, is to decide which method to use to create this little game. I could do it with Text but that feels ugly and boring. I could probably make a web version with Flask, but that feels overly complicated. That leaves Tkinter or Turtle. I opted for Turtle. I like Turtle, it has a fun sort of retro feel to it, and it’s simple enough to use.

This post is Extremely Long and full of code, so I’m putting ti behind a Read More, and here it is!