COP3503 Computer Science 2
Dr. Andrew Steinberg
Spring 2023
Programming Assignment 1
A Game That Requires Strategy
Due: 1/29/2023 at 11:59pm
Objective: Students will apply concepts of clever problem solving in this assignment and warmup
with basic Java skills.
Your solution must run within 2 seconds. Otherwise, a score of 0 will be automatically
applied as the assignment grade with no partial credit from the ru
ic!!!!
Assignment Description: We are going to play a fun strategy game that only requires two
players! In this game, we have an 8 x 8 board and a Knight chess piece that starts on the top left
of the board. Each player gets to move the Knight piece one square over either down, diagonal,
or to the right of its cu
ent position (a player cannot move the piece two or more squares). The
Knight piece can keep moving until it reaches the bottom right corner of the board. The
espective player that moves the Knight to the bottom right corner of the board wins the game! In
this assignment you are going to implement the winning strategy for both players.
For this assignment, you must follow these requirements.
1. You will create a public class called Game.
2. The Game Class will have the following attributes:
a. 2D integer a
ay that symbolizes the board.
. 1D primitive char a
ay (not a String object) that will store computerize moves.
There is no need to use the Random Class. Hint: This should be used in one of the
hypothetical strategies for one of the players to always win.
3. The Game Class has a constructor that takes two parameters
a. A primitive integer that represents the size of board (assume the board is always a
square)
. A String object reference that contains the name of a file that keeps the moves the
player 2 will use in the game.
Knight
Knight
When the game begins, the knight is
on the top left square of the board.
When the game ends, the knight is on
the bottom right square of the board.
COP3503 Computer Science 2
Dr. Andrew Steinberg
Spring 2023
4. The Game Class has a public non static method called readMoves. readMoves will
scan the respective text files of moves and store them in the character a
ay attribute. The
characters ‘r’, ‘b’, and ‘d’ represent the moves.
a. ‘r’ means move to the right one square
. ‘b’ means move down one square
c. ‘d’ means move diagonal one square
The method has one String reference parameter that represents the name of the text file.
This method should be invoked when the object of the class is instantiated.
5. The Game class has a public non static method called play. play will simulate a round
of the game. The method has one parameter that represents the player you want to win
the game. If a one is passed, then player 1 must win. If a two is passed, then player 2
must win. The method returns an integer type value that represents the winner of the
game (1 being player 1 and 2 being player 2). You can assume that player 1 will always
go first in the game, however based on the value past, you need to determine the
appropriate strategy for always winning the game for the appropriate player. This also
includes what the other player must do in their respective move. That means for this
scenario there is something that needs to always happen for player 2 to win!!!
6. You are allowed to create helper methods as long as they are not called directly from the
driver file. The helper methods must be called from your solution file.
A driver file (GameDriver.java) has been provided for you to show you how the methods are
called along with 10 test cases to see if you get the same scenario result.
What to submit: Submit a file called Game.java to webcourses. You are not required to submit
the driver file as that will be provided for the graders to test your code. Please make sure the
driver file provided works for your code. Any name changes may cause your program not to
work when graded, which will result in a lower score on the assignment and would not be
changed. You do not need to submit the text files of moves.
Comment Header: Please make sure to provide the appropriate comment header (like in the
Eustis assignment) as the first thing on the top of your file. Otherwise, if your comment header is
done inco
ectly including not being placed literally at the top of the file will result point
deductions in accordance with the ru
ic.
Time Constraints: For this assignment, your code solution must entirely within 2 seconds on
Eustis. If your solution takes longer than 2 seconds, then a score of 0 will be applied to the
assignment grade with no partial credit. The test script already has timeout exception set so you
can test your code’s time constraints.
Text Files: All text files are placed in the directory as your driver file and solution file. DO NOT
CREATE SUBFOLDERS! If you create subfolders, then this will cause our batch grader to not
un your code properly. This will result in points being deducted that cannot be disputed. You
COP3503 Computer Science 2
Dr. Andrew Steinberg
Spring 2023
can assume that all proper moves are associated and that there are no invalid characters in the
text files.
Important Note for running Eustis and Packages: Many of you are probably using IDEs like
Netbeans and Eclipse to build your Java Solutions. Please note that some of these IDEs will
automatically place your Java file in some sort of package. Please make sure your Java file is not
defined in some package as this can result package private e
ors. Any such e
or that occurs
during the grading will not be fixed and points will be deducted as such in accordance with the
espective categories in the ru
ic. Also, DO NOT create a main method in your solution file!!
This will result in your code not running properly with the driver file which will result in points
eing deducted from the respective categories.