implement the what? xD

the last algorithm that weighs the probability of a ship being on a specific space by calculating how many times that space can be used

Nope, then it's quite easy to deal with :-)

The hard part about networking in games is transversing firewalls/NAT. That's not necessary in a LAN.

Post what you have so far.

I'm interested in seeing how you implemented this Battleship game so far.

Console/Terminal or talking to the graphics driver makes no difference. DirectX/OpenGL/SDL/SFML/<insert here> does not magically do anything for you.

The A.I. shouldn't be too hard to implement. The more problematic issue is: How smart and fast do you want the opponent to learn?

I plan to start the project this weekend. If I make enough progress on the AI, I will post it. I only said it sounds more difficult, but I will find out when I get there.
The only other programming experience I have is self-taught C#. I only assumed it is easier to program when it is not console due to how easy I found programming in C# via creating objects.
Not sure if it would be a similar experience in C++.

The reason I imagine it being more difficult is because I'm not dealing with an object, but what will probably be coordinates. Usually I can just assign the priority to the object, but in the console there is nothing to assign it to. Maybe it's own array?
The calculation as I imagine it for the probability of each cell/coordinate is more difficult as well. As objects are naturally easier to work with for me.

The A.I. as a whole I don't see being too difficult for the Random, Parity, and the Hunt modes. Just will take more thought on my part for implementing the priority of each coordinate and then have the AI choose random from all the higher priority spots.

This post was edited by kasey21 on Oct 16 2018 11:53pm

Are you trying to write this strictly with C++ or platform-dependent calls?

ncurses should be fairly simple for *NIX systems.
Win32 is equally easy for working with the console.

Colors, exact cell drawing (writing entire blocks of memory in one foul swoop), etc.

This is for a Programming Fundamentals I which uses c++ . So I'm trying to keep it to c++. Especially since this is my first formal programming class.

In that case: You'll want to use some sort of pseudo clear screen function. The only sensible one I can think of would be outputting a static string (or something similar) filled with 25(?) newlines (default Windows console height).

IIRC: 25h x 80w is the default size from Windows 95+.

Are you planning on using C++11, C++14 or C++17? I'm deathly curious.

system("cls"); //clear screen-

and not sure. Using newest Visual Studios if that indicates which one I'm using.

Why would you use system("CLS")?

Linux uses clear and not cls.