Board_Game_Master

This is the teaching project for the programming basics course in Python

Overview

This project builds a simple board game launcher which inlcudes a menu screen and two board games (tic-tac-toe and Gomoku).

Dependencies:

• pygame

Teaching

The teaching session can be splitted into four parts.

Part 1: Introduction to pygame

The first part focuses on introducing the pygame package to students by building a menu scene and the tic-tac-toe game logic.

Key points for students:

• pygame basics: fps, display, draw, blit
• how to draw a button using pygame
• game loop (state machine)

Part 2: Object Oriented Programming

The second part focused on improving the code quality of the first part by split different components to different classes.

Key points for students:

• class
• inheritance
• easier addition of more board games

The game design also integrated some simple model-view-controller (MVC) idea, which can be briefly introduced to students.

Note: No new features are added in this part.

Part 3: Drop down menu

This part focuses on implementing a drop down menu on the menu scene.

Key points for students:

• more usage of pygame draw functions
• updated game loop (state machine)

Part 4: Gomoku

This part adds the Gomoku game

Key points for students:

• similarity and difference between tic-tac-toe and Gomoku
• efficient win condition check for Gomoku