o | o | o
----------
x | x | x
----------
o | o | o
That (if HN doesn't mangle it) should be a fully working Tic-Tac-Toe board. You can store it as a string, hashtable, whatever you want. You could label the squares 1-9 for the prompt asking the user where to move.
This is all doable with perl and a command line. Try it out, see what you learn.
My first implementation (in c++) was exactly like that. A 3x3 array that printed out like that. You had to enter 1,1 for the left upper corner (that's how I learned that arrays start at 0 in almost all languages ;p)
o | o | o ---------- x | x | x ---------- o | o | o
That (if HN doesn't mangle it) should be a fully working Tic-Tac-Toe board. You can store it as a string, hashtable, whatever you want. You could label the squares 1-9 for the prompt asking the user where to move.
This is all doable with perl and a command line. Try it out, see what you learn.