Month: February 2013

Please note, this blog entry is from a previous course. You might want to check out the current one.

For Set, 12 cards should be initially dealt and Set cards should always show what’s on them even if they are technically “face down”. For the Playing Card game deal 22 cards, all face down.

Start by removing the card buttons from the set view controller in storyboard and remove the parts in the set-view-controller class which access the former card buttons – at the same time you can move lots of the public interface of the generic game-view-controller class back to be private … which is mostly cosmetic …

And because there are no card buttons any more set the starting number of cards to 12:
Continue reading “cs193p – Assignment #3 Task #3”

Please note, this blog entry is from a previous course. You might want to check out the current one.

Create an application that plays both the Set game (single player) in one tab and the Playing Card matching game in another.

… the current version does already do that, just make sure not to break anything in the following tasks

You must use polymorphism to design your Controllers for the two games (i.e. you must have a (probably abstract) base card game Controller class and your Set game and Playing Card game Controllers must be subclasses thereof).

… which we actually have done already in the last assignment. But we can still clean up a little bit, e.g by removing the access to the direct access of game and gameResult by adding additional abstract properties:
Continue reading “cs193p – Assignment #3 Task #1 & #2”

Please note, this blog entry is from a previous course. You might want to check out the current one.

Add another tab for some “settings” in the game.

We will need to access the settings from both card games as well as from the settings view. Therefore we create a new class derived from NSObject with public properties of the “settings” which can be used by all of those controllers:

@interface GameSettings : NSObject
@property (nonatomic) int matchBonus;
@property (nonatomic) int mismatchPenalty;
@property (nonatomic) int flipCost;
@end

Continue reading “cs193p – Assignment #2 Extra Task #3”

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Add third tab to track the user’s scores. It should be clear which scores were playing card match games and which scores were Set card match games.

The tab has already been implemented during lecture #5.

To be able to separate the scores of the different games, it is necessary to another property which can provide this information:

@property (strong, nonatomic) NSString *gameType;

Continue reading “cs193p – Assignment #2 Extra Task #2”

Please note, this blog entry is from a previous course. You might want to check out the current one.

Create appropriate icons for your two tabs. The icons are 30×30 and are pure alpha channels (i.e. they are a “cutout” through which the blue gradient shines through). Search the documentation for more on how to create icons like that and set them.

Create the icons in your favorite graphic program, save them to your project and set them in storyboard:

The complete code is available on github.