Robots game

Your goal in the lab which starts on Monday is to design and write a program to play robots. This will be a graded lab which you'll work on in groups of two, and which will involve a significant amount of preliminary object-oriented design. Before doing any of this, however, you need to play the game, which is the goal of the current, short lab.

Play robots

The UNIX program robots predates the ubiquitousness of graphical interfaces, so you have to play using keyboard input.

  1. In Emacs, type M-x man (for manual-page), and enter -M ~mc38/man robots. This gives your directions on how to play. ``-M ~mc38/man'' says ``Please look for the man page in the MC38 directory.''

  2. Type ~mc38/bin/robots to play the game.

  3. Read the manual page for robots again and give some thought to how you might design your class to implement the robot.

  4. Check off: If you think you are familiar with the game, like how to win, how a player loses, and what every key does, ask to get checked off.