Tic Tac Toe in Erlang

by Charles Daniel

This is my first attempt at an actual program while trying to learn Erlang. It's a basic text based tic tac toe game in Erlang.

Running it via GNU Make with an installed Erlang

If you have erl in your executable $PATH then simply run

make run

Running it via GNU Make with Docker

If you don't have Erlang on your machine but you do have Docker installed then run

make docker-run

If you don't have GNU Make but do have Docker then just look at how the Docker is being run in the Makefile's docker-run target

Running it in the Erlang shell

To Run it get into an Erlang shell and compile ttt then run ttt:start_game()

$ erl
Erlang/OTP 18 [erts-7.1] [source-2882b0c] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V7.1  (abort with ^G)
1> c(ttt).
{ok,ttt}
2> ttt:start_game().
1 | 2 | 3
---------
4 | 5 | 6
---------
7 | 8 | 9
Your Move ->

You are "X" (the computer is "O"), simply enter a number from 1..9 and hit Enter. The computer will then take a turn and we repeat until there is a winner or there are no more spots left.

###TODO

• Rework the code to be more Erlangy
• Better GUI