Dad is Callum, Jude, and Lynette’s father and Mum’s husband. He begins the novel as an easygoing, affable man. But when Mum loses her job and the family falls into poverty… The nac.py file contains a class implementing the game logic, independently of any user interface. The nacconsole.py file contains a class providing a console-based UI using curses. I wrote an introduction to curses a while ago which you might like to read before this article. Dionne is a year above Sephy at Heathcroft. After Sephy attempts to sit with the noughts at lunch, she, Lola, and Joanne brutally beat Sephy up. Several years later, after he joins the Liberation… Technically, Andrew Dorn is the General’s second-in-command in the Liberation Militia—but Sephy and Callum discover that Andrew is actually a spy. This is because at the beginning of the novel, when Sephy is…

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Showing the level is done by a separate function so it can be called without redrawing the whole game. on_game_changed Sephy and Minnie’s mother and Mr. Hadley’s wife is a wealthy Cross woman. She demands total loyalty from her nought staff (in the prologue, she fires Meggie for not corroborating an alibi in… Import random library to decide which player will start the game. It is a built-in library in Python, which is used to generate random numbers between two given numbers. Define a function first_move() to generate a random number using random_randint()function between 0 and 1 to decide which player is going to start first. If the random number is equal to 1, then player 1 will start the game. If it is 0 then player 2 will start the game. import random def first_move():

Not essential as I could just use arbitrary numbers or strings but it does make the code neater. __init__ One of the best attorneys in the country, Mrs. Hadley secretly hires Kelani Adams to represent Ryan, the supposed bomber of the Dundale Shopping Center. She’s a Cross, and even Sephy, who… That's the NaC class finished so now we can move on to writing a UI. As I mentioned above I have written a console UI with curses but the NaC class has no user interface code so can be used with any library or framework, for example PyGame, Tkinter, PyQt or whatever. Adam Stanhope is the lawyer Mum and Callum hire to represent Dad during his trial. He’s a nought—and to Callum’s extreme surprise, he’s a second-generation lawyer. Because he understands the importance of not appearing… For this make a function for game to restart. Define replay() function, which will take input from the player to play again or not. def replay():

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Juno Ayelette is Mr. Hadley’s personal secretary, and she seems almost as famous as her boss. Like Mr. Hadley, she’s callous and obsessed with preserving the Hadley family’s reputation—so when she discovers that Minnie… This is the other function passed to the NaC class and is called when the game is over. The winner argument is "X" for the player, "O" for the computer or " " for a draw. The function uses this to create a suitable message which is then displayed in an orange box in the middle of the board. Mum is Callum, Jude, and Lynette’s mother and Ryan’s wife. When readers meet her in the prologue, she’s a hopeful person. She works for the Hadley family and dreams of Callum… Though he never appears in person in the novel, Alex Luther is a nought who fights for equality between noughts and Crosses through nonviolent protest, such as through sit-ins. He’s been to jail many times… The cell is expecting the General of the LM’s second-in-command to visit them at their remote location, but Callum is immediately suspicious of the man, Andrew Dorn. When Andrew asks to see Sephy, Sephy visibly startles at the sight of him. The next day, Andrew, Jude, and three other members of the cell, Morgan, Leila, and Pete, leave to deliver more demands to Mr. Hadley, leaving Callum to guard Sephy.

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Sephy and Minnie’s father and Mother’s husband, Mr. Hadley is a powerful Cross in government: he’s the home minister. He’s a large, imposing man and is constantly angry and physically violent with his… The on_change and on_game_over arguments are functions injected by the code instantiating an object, and are called when the respective situations occur. We'll see the UI use these later on. Sephy is the only Cross to attend Lynette’s funeral, but her presence isn’t well-received; Dad and Jude both tell her to leave. In the weeks after the funeral, Callum realizes that Dad and Jude are becoming more involved with the LM. Mother’s drinking escalates, which frightens Sephy—but her sister Minnie says they shouldn’t do anything. Mrs. Paxton is Callum and Sephy’s math teacher at Heathcroft. To Callum’s extreme relief, and despite her being a dark-skinned Cross, she’s one of the only teachers who treats Callum like an actual…

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Next the players’ marker are made by creating player_input()function by using while loop for player 1 to choose his/her marker; X or O. Once the marker has been chosen by player 1, then the alternate marker is automatically allotted to player 2 using if function. def player_input():Lola is a year above Sephy at Heathcroft. After Sephy attempts to sit with the noughts at lunch, Lola, Dionne, and Joanne brutally beat Sephy up. Several years later, after he joins the Liberation… Jude is Callum’s older brother and the middle child of the family. Callum and Jude don’t get along and never have: Callum regularly describes Jude as insufferable, or as a “toad.” Part of the… Mr. Stoll is a witness Kelani Adams calls in Ryan’s trial. A Cross and a former police detective, Mr. Stoll was at the mall café when Callum drug Sephy out to protect her. He’s… After a load of stuff to set up curses we create an instance of NaC before calling functions to draw the board and show the level. Finally we call a function to start the event loop. __event_loop The first day of school is horrible for Sephy and Callum both. A mob outside protests the nought students, and Sephy gets the mob to disperse by screaming that her classmates are acting like “blankers.” Callum is hurt and offended, so Sephy agrees not to use the slur again.

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Mr. Jason is Callum and Sephy’s history teacher at Heathcroft. They both find him insufferable because of the way he treats Callum and the other noughts: he regularly insults them, gives them poor… If __computer_move_genius finds a win path it wishes to use for its next move it calls this function to find an empty square in this path. If there are two the first is returned. One of the protagonists, the novel follows privileged Cross Sephy from age 13 to 17. She’s been best friends with nought Callum her whole life and believes that it’s going to be great when Callum… Callum is a nought - a second class citizen in a world run by Crosses. Sephy is a Cross - daughter of one of the most powerful men in the country. Noughts and Crosses simply don't mix, but they are determined to try.For placing the marker on a given position, define a function handle_turn() in which pass 3 parameters; board, marker and position. In this board would be the tic-tac-toe grid. Marker would be X and O. Position would be the spot where the marker would be placed on the board. Equate marker to the position on the board. Lynette is Callum’s oldest sibling at 20 years old. When Callum first introduces Lynette to readers, he describes her as somewhat “simple.” For the last three years, Lynette has existed in her own world…