CPPND: Capstone Snake Game

This is a starter repo for the Capstone project in the Udacity C++ Nanodegree Program. The code for this repo was inspired by this excellent StackOverflow post and set of responses.

In this project I extended a basic version of the Snake Game with additional Features by following the principles I learned throughout the C++ Nanodegree Program (see Rubric Points).

Features

• Pause/Exit
  • The game now can be paused/resumed using ESC and exit using the q button
• Power Food
  • Special food types prevent increasing of the snakes velocity
• Random Obstacles
  • The user can increase the game difficulty by speciying a number of obstacles. These are randomly appearing and lead to a death at collision

Dependencies for Running Locally

• cmake >= 3.7
  • All OSes: click here for installation instructions
• make >= 4.1 (Linux, Mac), 3.81 (Windows)
  • Linux: make is installed by default on most Linux distros
  • Mac: install Xcode command line tools to get make
  • Windows: Click here for installation instructions
• SDL2 >= 2.0
  • All installation instructions can be found here

  Note that for Linux, an apt or apt-get installation is preferred to building from source.

• gcc/g++ >= 5.4
  • Linux: gcc / g++ is installed by default on most Linux distros
  • Mac: same deal as make - install Xcode command line tools
  • Windows: recommend using MinGW

Basic Build Instructions

1. Clone this repo.
2. Make a build directory in the top level directory: mkdir build && cd build
3. Compile: cmake .. && make
4. Run it: ./SnakeGame.

Rubric Points

Loops, Functions, I/O

• The project demonstrates an understanding of C++ functions and control structures.
• The project accepts user input and processes the input.

Object Oriented Programming

• The project code is organized into classes with class attributes to hold the data, and class methods to perform tasks.
• All class data members are explicitly specified as public, protected, or private.
• All class member functions document their effects, either through function names, comments, or formal documentation. Member functions do not change program state in undocumented ways.

Memory Management

• The project makes use of references in function declarations.

Concurrency

• Due to time constraints, these have not been integrated at this stage.

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