C# and VB port of word

96 Word/csharp/Program.cs

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+using System;
+using System.Linq;
+using System.Text;
+
+namespace word
+{
+    class Word
+    {
+        // Here's the list of potential words that could be selected
+        // as the winning word.
+        private string[] words = { "DINKY", "SMOKE", "WATER", "GRASS", "TRAIN", "MIGHT", "FIRST",
+         "CANDY", "CHAMP", "WOULD", "CLUMP", "DOPEY" };
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Outputs the instructions of the game.
+        /// </summary>
+        private void intro()
+        {
+            Console.WriteLine("WORD".PadLeft(37));
+            Console.WriteLine("CREATIVE COMPUTING  MORRISTOWN, NEW JERSEY".PadLeft(59));
+
+            Console.WriteLine("I am thinking of a word -- you guess it. I will give you");
+            Console.WriteLine("clues to help you get it. Good luck!!");
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// This allows the user to enter a guess - doing some basic validation
+        /// on those guesses.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <returns>The guess entered by the user</returns>
+        private string get_guess()
+        {
+            string guess = "";
+
+            while (guess.Length == 0)
+            {
+                Console.WriteLine($"{Environment.NewLine}Guess a five letter word. ");
+                guess = Console.ReadLine().ToUpper();
+
+                if ((guess.Length != 5) || (guess.Equals("?")) || (!guess.All(char.IsLetter)))
+                {
+                    guess = "";
+                    Console.WriteLine("You must guess a give letter word. Start again.");
+                }
+            }
+
+            return guess;
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// This checks the user's guess against the target word - capturing
+        /// any letters that match up between the two as well as the specific
+        /// letters that are correct.
+        /// </summary>
+        /// <param name="guess">The user's guess</param>
+        /// <param name="target">The 'winning' word</param>
+        /// <param name="progress">A string showing which specific letters have already been guessed</param>
+        /// <returns>The integer value showing the number of character matches between guess and target</returns>
+        private int check_guess(string guess, string target, StringBuilder progress)
+        {
+            // Go through each letter of the guess and see which 
+            // letters match up to the target word.
+            // For each position that matches, update the progress
+            // to reflect the guess
+            int matches = 0;
+            string common_letters = "";
+
+            for (int ctr = 0; ctr < 5; ctr++)
+            {
+                // First see if this letter appears anywhere in the target
+                // and, if so, add it to the common_letters list.
+                if (target.Contains(guess[ctr]))
+                {
+                    common_letters.Append(guess[ctr]);
+                }
+                // Then see if this specific letter matches the
+                // same position in the target. And, if so, update
+                // the progress tracker
+                if (guess[ctr].Equals(target[ctr]))
+                {
+                    progress[ctr] = guess[ctr];
+                    matches++;
+                }
+            }
+
+            Console.WriteLine($"There were {matches} matches and the common letters were... {common_letters}");
+            Console.WriteLine($"From the exact letter matches, you know......... {progress}");
+            return matches;
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// This plays one full game.
+        /// </summary>
+        private void play_game()
+        {
+            string guess_word, target_word;
+            StringBuilder guess_progress = new StringBuilder("-----");
+            Random rand = new Random();
+            int count = 0;
+
+            Console.WriteLine("You are starting a new game...");
+
+            // Randomly select a word from the list of words
+            target_word = words[rand.Next(words.Length)];
+
+            // Just run as an infinite loop until one of the
+            // endgame conditions are met.
+            while (true)
+            {
+                // Ask the user for their guess
+                guess_word = get_guess();
+                count++;
+
+                // If they enter a question mark, then tell them
+                // the answer and quit the game
+                if (guess_word.Equals("?"))
+                {
+                    Console.WriteLine($"The secret word is {target_word}");
+                    return;
+                }
+
+                // Otherwise, check the guess against the target - noting progress
+                if (check_guess(guess_word, target_word, guess_progress) == 0)
+                {
+                    Console.WriteLine("If you give up, type '?' for your next guess.");
+                }
+
+                // Once they've guess the word, end the game.
+                if (guess_progress.Equals(guess_word))
+                {
+                    Console.WriteLine($"You have guessed the word.  It took {count} guesses!");
+                    return;
+                }
+            }
+        }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The main entry point for the class - just keeps
+        /// playing the game until the user decides to quit.
+        /// </summary>
+        public void play()
+        {
+            intro();
+
+            bool keep_playing = true;
+
+            while (keep_playing)
+            {
+                play_game();
+                Console.WriteLine($"{Environment.NewLine}Want to play again? ");
+                keep_playing = Console.ReadLine().StartsWith("y", StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    class Program
+    {
+        static void Main(string[] args)
+        {
+            new Word().play();
+        }
+    }
+}