C Program Help - Rock, Paper, Scissors

[eidtelnvil]

I know next to nothing about C programming and need to develop a simple program to play rock, paper, scissors.

The choices need to be:
1 - Explain the rules
2 - Play the game
3 - Quit

The computer needs to prompt the user to enter a choice. When they play the game, the computer selects its own rock, paper, or scissor. Then the computer displays the results of the game. The game continues until the user selects 3 to quit.

I know this is probably the easiest program imagineable, but I barely have time to do it. I have to have knee surgery on Wednesday and I don't know where to even begin. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I will sing your praises for all eternity.

Thanks in advance.

[QuickSilver]

What sort of C programming experience do you have? Do you understand loops, if statements??? Character input and character comparisons... I mean a lot of people can point you in the right direction here to get you thinking along the right lines but I don't think many people will just fire out the code for you to use...

So to break this down the program needs to...

ask the user to enter a number
based on that number either
1 - Display the rules
- Return to menu
2 - pick a random paper/scissors/stone
- prompt the user to enter paper scissor or stone
- work out which is better (if comp has paper and user has stone then comp wins etc etc)
- Return to menu
3 - Exit

I would possibly be tempted to get the computer to pick a number and random between 1 and 3 inclusive and then have a hard coded relationship between the number and a paper/scissor/stone... (1 = Paper, 2=Scissor, 3=Stone) and also to minimise potential errors I would have a menu after the user presses 2 another menu appears asking them to enter another choice between 1 and 3 based on what they want... eg displaying

Which Item do you want?
1 - Paper
2 - Scissor
3 - Stone
Enter your choice :

The rules to determine who wins are going to be some simple nested if/else statements...

That personally is how I would implement that... give it a go yourself and see how you get on... Good luck.

[eidtelnvil]

Thanks much.