./gradlew  installDist
./build/install/battleship/bin/battleship

To update your input/out files for testing main,

tee src/test/resources/input.txt | ./build/install/battleship/bin/battleship | tee src/test/resources/output.txt

• Four ship types with four orientations

  • 2 "Submarines"
  • 3 "Destroyers"
  • 3 "Battleships"
  • 2 "Carriers"

• Three possible actions for the player

  • F Fire at a square
  • M Move a ship to another square (at most 3 times)
  • S Sonar scan (at most 3 times)

• Play against computer

  When the game starts, it should prompt the user for whether each of Player A and/or Player B is a human player or to be played by the computer (Any combination is valid: human vs human, human vs computer, computer vs human, or computer vs computer).

• Computer AI based on score matrix.

  Choose the point of greatest score to fire at and select the point of lowest postive score as the center for a sonar scan.

• Graphical User Interface.

  Replace the text-based interface with GUI that allows the player to use mouse to do the board initialization at the very beginning of the game.

• Option to convert to AI

  At the end of each turn, players can choose to have the AI do the rest of the game on their behalf.