MineSweeper is a game where you are faced with the challenge to clear a mine field. A number of mines are hidden in the field.

Each turn the player can choose to mark a location - to indicate that he thinks there is a mine in that location - or he can boldly clear the location. Marking is always safe but if you clearing a location will result in a big explosion and a GAME OVER. Luckily its just a game so you can try again 😊

Our finished game will look like this:

row col [mark]: 1 2 m

The code skeleton given contains the game loop already and displays a mock mine field with all *s.

It will repeatedly ask the player for input, and display the minefield again.

row col [mark]: 1 2 m

A lot of work still needs to be done! Let's get to it!

To run our game type following in the terminal:

python mines.py

• step1 - interpret user input
• step2 - add a minefield
• step3 - clear fields
• step4 - add initial mines
• step5 - add game over
• step6 - show mine counts
• step7 - proper display
• step8 - remaining + keep clearing

In the first step we are going to implement interpreting the user input.

return input("row col [mark]: ")

When this code is executed is displays row col [mark]: wait for user input (finished with a return). This string is then returned from the function.

We expect the user to supply us with 2 or 3 components: the row, the column and some indication wether the user wants to dig or mark the spot.

For the row and column a coords constant is already supplied.

To do this we need to:

• split the input on whitespace
• convert the first 2 to an integer number (0 based index in the coords string)
• if the player enters a 3rd part, we will interpret this mark instead of dig. This part should be converted to True or False