Tictac

This is my experimentation, trying to learn Elixir while following Alchemist Camp.

Note: I know that a lot of things can be improved in this game. For example, ability to run by command mix run would have been good (and honestly, that's an easy one). However, the point of this experiment was not to create a production grade game but experiment with powerful pattern matching in Elixir to implement a simple state machine.

How to start

To play this game, we need to have Elixir and Erlang installed. Follow this for setup instructions.

After the setup, let's run the following in our shell:

git clone git@github.com:exanup/tictac.git
cd tictac
iex -S mix

We then see the Erlang/OTP REPL.

The game starts by invoking a function called play/0 inside the module called Tictac.CLI. Hence, to start the game, we could just:

Tictac.CLI.play

But, to make it easier for quicker starts, let's import the module like so:

import Tictac.CLI

Then, every time we want to start a new game, we just call the function called play/0 like so:

play

If we were to change any code in the editor, and wanted to see the changes reflected, we would have entered the following in the REPL one after another:

recomplile
play

Have fun! 😁