HANGMAN

Instructions

This Hangman game selects a word between 5-12 letters long from a text file. On each turn, you can guess one letter. To win, you must find all the letters in the word before using 10 incorrect guesses.

In addition, you may choose to save a game. It will be saved as a save.yaml file name. At the beginning of each game, you can choose to load a previously saved game.

To play this game:

1. Clone this repository using git clone [email protected]:atulvishw240/hangman.git
2. Now enter the command cd hangman/
3. Run the command ruby hangman.rb to play the game.

Problems that I faced

1. As my class don't take any arguments it was difficult for me to recreate the game object (Unserialize)
2. The hint "You can serialize game classes too" took me off track. If it wasn't for this hint, I would've completed this project sooner.

Lessons Learned

1. Writing small methods isn't the only thing to look out for if you're trying to write clean code.
2. Although this was a small program but it could be still broken into multiple classes to reduce the coupling, that way if I wanted to change something I could do that easily. Like a separate class for Player and seralization and deserialization functionality could be placed in their own class. A UserInterface class could be used to segregate the interface part.
3. Serialization is just converting your data structure into string using some set of rules and then using these rules in the reverse order to reconstruct your original data structure.