INTRODUCTION GuessingGame is a simple game written in a variety of programming languages, so that the languages themselves can be compared. The program covers many programming fundamentals: variable declaration and manipulation (strings and integers), screen output, keyboard input, loops, if statements, file input and file output. EXAMPLE Below is an example of playing the guessing game. The program randomly picks a number which you try to guess. You enter your name which is saved to a high score file and the previous high scores are printed out. The version here is the Perl version, however all versions are designed to appear as identical as possible: mars:> ./guess.pl guess.pl - Guess a number between 1 and 100 Enter guess 1: 50 Higher... Enter guess 2: 75 Lower... Enter guess 3: 67 Lower... Enter guess 4: 58 Lower... Enter guess 5: 54 Higher... Enter guess 6: 56 Lower... Enter guess 7: 55 Correct! That took 7 guesses. Please enter your name: Brendan Gregg Previous high scores, Fred Nurk 5 Fred 6 Brendan Gregg 7 And the high score file was: mars:> ls -l highscores_pl -rw-r--r-- 1 brendan other 35 Oct 26 01:31 highscores_pl INSTALLATION The programs are in the "src" directory. At the top of each program is a comment that describes how to run the program, and compile it if necessary. There is no installer (or Makefile), instead, read the programs themselves. Any additional documentation is in the "doc" directory. LINKS http://www.brendangregg.com/guessinggame.html project website https://github.com/brendangregg/GuessingGame source repository