Iteration 1 - Game Board

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Test Driven Development

In this iteration, you are required to use TDD to create your classes. Use the interaction pattern to determine what a method should do and write one or more tests to verify that expected behavior. Then you can implement the method. You should always write code with the purpose of making a test pass.

Printing the Board

When a user runs the command to start the game, they will see a welcome message, followed by an empty board. The board itself will represent empty spaces with periods and column names with a letter A-G.

ABCDEFG
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Player pieces will be represented by X’s, while computer pieces will be represented by O’s. A board later in the game might look something like the following:

ABCDEFG
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O......
X.O...O
XXOX..X
XOOXOOX

For Iteration 1, students should have a program that will print out a welcome message and an empty board.