John Ritz, Full Stack Programmer

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John Console App Battleship

Hello Intrepid Explorer

Welcome to my C# (C Sharp) Console App. (Application) You might not believe it, but this app has no web stuff, gasp. Seriously, only ASCII characters. When I was growing up there was no handy mouse by the computers. Only the keyboard. There were no pictures on the screen. Some creative people (bored? :-) would make an image shown / drawn by only using the characters and numbers on the keyboard. Here is an e.g. of a drawn "Hi" then converted to ASCII characters.

.lc.                                              
.:OO:.                          .:;               
  .c0k;                        ;OO:               
    .o0k;.                   .lKx.                
      .oOk:                 ,k0c                  
        .o0k,             .lKk'                   
          ;KO.           .cXd.              .,.   
           lXl          ,dKO.              cKWNx. 
           .OO.        .xWX:              .OMMMX; 
            dX;       .dK0c                'lxKd. 
           .k0'       lXl.                    ..  
           cXo       '0k.                .'.      
          .OO'       cNl                .dK:      
         .dNO:;;;;,.,kX;               'kKl.      
        .lXNOxxxxxkkON0'              '00;        
         '0k.      .cXx.             .xX:         
         cNl        dX:              lXo          
        .k0'       '0k.             cKd.          
        lXo        cNl             cKd.           
       ,0O.       .xX;            ;Xk.            
      .dX:        :Xx.            dX:             
      ;Kx.        dX:            ;Kx.             
     ;0O'         dX;           .dX:              
   'xKd.          cXd.           oX:     .,ll.    
   ;o,             lKk,          '0Kocldkkxd;.    
                    'c,           .:lll:'.        

The Battleship App is run from the Command Line Interface (CLI) or the .EXE can be double clicked from your mouse. See instructions below to compile / build your executable to run.

When the App comes up

Initial Opening Screen

Main Screen

Sunk the Battleship screen

Easter Egg Screen

How to build and create the executable to run

1 - I used Visual Studio 2022 to compile then create an executable to run.

2 - Click on Debug or Release at the top of the screen:

3 - Then Choose "Build Solution" under the "Build" menu.

4 - Then go to directory that is created by Visual Studio. Such as:

    Directory: C:\Users\...\source\repos\John Console App Battleship\John Console App Battleship\bin\debug\net6.0

Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a----         4/15/2022   6:28 AM            473 John Console App Battleship.deps.json
-a----         4/20/2022   2:05 PM          21504 John Console App Battleship.dll
-a----         4/20/2022   2:05 PM         148992 John Console App Battleship.exe
-a----         4/20/2022   2:05 PM          18084 John Console App Battleship.pdb
-a----         4/15/2022   6:28 AM            147 John Console App Battleship.runtimeconfig.json

5 - Once it is compiled

cd C:\Users\...\source\repos\John Console App Battleship\John Console App Battleship\bin\debug\net6.0

or for Release / Production build go to

cd C:\Users\...\source\repos\John Console App Battleship\John Console App Battleship\bin\Release\net6.0

If you are in a Windows File manager then double click on John Console App Battleship.exe

If you are in your Command Line Interface (CLI) type in John Console App Battleship.exe and press Enter key (return key)

For PowerShell CLI see next section...

In PowerShell how to run on command line:

'Found on https://www.delftstack.com/howto/powershell/running-executable-files-in-powershell/'

Start-Process -wait -FilePath '.\John Console App Battleship.exe'

or
The website said if you want "quiet mode" use this set of arguments '/s /v /qn'

'Start-Process -wait -FilePath '.\John Console App Battleship.exe' -ArgumentList '/s /v/qn' -PassThru'

PS C:\..\source\repos\John Console App Battleship\John Console App Battleship\bin\Debug\net6.0> Start-Process -wait -FilePath '.\John Console App Battleship.exe'
PS C:\..\source\repos\John Console App Battleship\John Console App Battleship\bin\Debug\net6.0> dir
  (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
        .vscode/
    Directory: C:\..\source\repos\John Console App Battleship\John Console App Battleship\bin\Debug\net6.0
        John Console App Battleship/classes/
Mode                 LastWriteTime         Length Name
----                 -------------         ------ ----
-a----         3/23/2022   7:57 PM            473 John Console App Battleship.deps.json
-a----          4/1/2022   4:27 PM           8704 John Console App Battleship.dll
-a----          4/1/2022   4:27 PM         148992 John Console App Battleship.exe
-a----          4/1/2022   4:27 PM          11916 John Console App Battleship.pdb
-a----         3/23/2022   7:57 PM            147 John Console App Battleship.runtimeconfig.json
 namespace BattleShip
 {

PS C:\..\source\repos\John Console App Battleship\John Console App Battleship\bin\Debug\net6.0> Start-Process -wait -FilePath '.\John Console App Battleship.exe' -ArgumentList '/s /v/qn' -PassThru
-
Handles  NPM(K)    PM(K)      WS(K)     CPU(s)     Id  SI ProcessName
-------  ------    -----      -----     ------     --  -- -----------
     18       4      432       1984       0.02  28004   2 John Console App Battleship
     class Program
     {

C# resources used

Learning a LOT of the basics of C##

https://aka.ms/new-console-template

Checking for null from ReadLine

https://www.tutlane.com/tutorial/csharp/csharp-switch-case-statement-with-examples

https://www.csharp-examples.net/switch/

https://www.delftstack.com/howto/csharp/multiple-case-switch-in-csharp/

https://www.educba.com/2d-arrays-in-c-sharp/

https://www.programmersranch.com/2013/05/c-ascii-art-game-part-1.html

For PowerShell checking if PowerShell (or script) is currently running with "Administor" privileges: (New-Object System.Security.Principal.WindowsPrincipal([System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent())).IsInRole([System.Security.Principal.WindowsBuiltInRole]::Administrator)