A Battleship Game

Presenting for your entertainment a simple battleship game. The biggest testimonial for it was that my 5 year old son played it, finished playing, and liked it. Since the first time, he has often requested to be allowed to play it.

My objective of building this game has been primarily educational. 

1. to get back to C++
2. to create a practical example of software design of what could be a term-project
3. to use OO best practices with design patterns like singleton, template etc.
4. to approximate a model-view-architecture
5. to implement the Smart CPU using a finite state machine

Additionally, the design has flavours of functional design.

But, those are secondary. If you get to play the game, and 5 minutes of your time go in a lightweight tussle with the machine, the real objective of this project is achieved.

Would be thankful for feedback and bugs.

Now LaTeX is a 'Turing Complete' Language

If you are a LaTeX user, today's a day for you to rejoice. TeX -- the underlying typesetting engine -- was designed by Don Knuth, who won the highest computer science honour way back in 1974. Now, with Lamport -- who enriched the software significantly, and to whom the 'La' part of LaTeX is credited -- getting the Turing award, we can say that LaTeX now is 'Turing Complete'! :)

Of course, Lamport's contributions to Computer Science go far deeper than just LaTeX. He has made fundamental contributions to distributed and concurrent computing. To appreciate this, you needn't have read his papers, or done a course of distributed computing. If you as much as have made one call with your cell-phone, or have used the Internet, you have already allowed Lamport's work to touch your life in a profound way.

Let's cheer Leslie for this much deserved, and probably long delayed, honour!

http://www.acm.org/news/featured/awards/turing-award-2013

http://channel9.msdn.com/Series/Microsoft-Research-Luminaries/Leslie-Lamport-Selected-as-2013-ACM-A-M-Turing-Award-Winner