CSCI 243 Project #4

Event Driven Programming

Date Due: 17 November 2014

For this next program we are going to combine things we’ve done earlier with Unix signals and event driven programming to implement a game using text graphics—shades of the late 70’s! We will be using ncurses to move text objects around the screen, and use the keyboard to control the movement. (Some early computers actually had game elements in the character set…for instance there were characters for a tank facing in eight possible directions, etc. Sadly, today’s character sets are much more mundane.) The game of choice is pong for one player, a combination of breakout and pong. To celebrate the superiority of vi as an editor over emacs, we will use the j and k keys to move the paddle up and down. The paddle will move up and down on the right side of the screen, which is open, while the other three sides are closed in by walls. Everyone should do well on this project since Chapter 7 of the text describes the design process in detail.