Case Studies

Naughts and crosses (or Tic Tac Toe) is a very simple game of logic. This has a straight foward specification, but the implementation is very much up to the developer, giving insight into how they approach projects.

Specification

• As simple as possible. We are more impressed with short elegant code than an expanded featureset.
• Turn based: 2 players play on the same screen.
• NO users table or authentication necessary.
• No ajax.
• Should announce the winner when necessary.
• Should not allow the game to go into an invalid state.
• Should persist game state (either to session or database).

Delivery

Should be delivered as a zip file containing the Rails application tree and necessary migrations.

Notes

• Total time should be about 1 hour
• Short elegant code is more important than more features.