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The Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock games. This is the infamous game brought to popularity with the TV show The Big Bang Theory. This training project, prepared by Codecademy.

Table of Contents

• Project Prompt
• Technologies
• Setup
• Sources

Project Prompt

Write a rock_paper_scissors.cpp program that:

• Prompts the user to select either Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, or Spock.
• Instructs the computer to randomly select either Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, or Spock.
• Compares the user’s choice and the computer’s choice and determine the winner.
• Informs the user who the winner is.

Technologies

• C++

Setup

How to compile and execute:

1. Download rockpaper.cpp.
2. Open command line interface and navigate to the directory where the files are downloaded.
3. Run the following commands to compile and execute the program:

g++ rockpaper.cpp -o rockpaper
./rockpaper

Sources

Codecademy's Learn C++ Course.