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    <p>To help gather a sense of Objective-C I'm creating a <em>very</em> basic connect 4 game sans Cocoa.</p> <p>In my program I have three modules:</p> <ul> <li>"Game": Contains an array that holds the board information. Object that is created within main, and is responsible for turns. Player and Computer objects live within this module.</li> <li>"Player": Holds a function that inserts a player's piece into the preferred column (this module exists for the purpose of encapsulation, and only that).</li> <li>"Computer": Holds functions that determine, based on current board setup, where the computer should move, and then places a piece in that location.</li> </ul> <p>Ideally I would like for the Player and Computer classes to be able to edit the same instance of <code>pieceLoc</code> that lives within Game through some sort of inheritance, however I am not sure how to do this.</p> <p>Here's a snippet of what I currently am thinking about:<br /> <code> // startGame exists within the "Game" module</p> <pre><code>char *pieceLoc[42]; // This is a *temporary* global var. I'm still learning about // the best way to implement this with class and instance // methods. This is the array that holds the board info. -(void) startGame { Player *player =[[Player alloc] init]; // player's symbol = 'X' Computer *computer =[[Computer alloc] init]; // computer's symbol = 'O' int i = 0; while ([game hasPieceWon: 'X'] == NO &amp;&amp; [game hasPieceWon: 'O'] == NO) { //function for player move if ([game hasPieceWon: 'X'] == NO) { //function for computer move } } if ([game hasPieceWon: 'X'] == YES) // Tell the player they've won else // Tell the player the computer has won. </code></pre> <p>} </code> <br /><br /></p> <p>The functions used for player and computer moves are the functions that would need to somehow obtain access to the array <code>pieceLoc</code> (which will in the future exist as a instance variable, once I learn more about class vs. instance methods). <code>pieceLoc</code> currently exists as a char *, in case I do have to pass it via function parameters.</p> <p>I feel as if this is a fairly simple problem with how I'm thinking about OOP, but I was unable to find an answer to what I was looking for despite searching for most of the afternoon. From what I've gathered my question relates to class composition, but I couldn't find a good resource about that for Objective-C.</p> <p>So, again: I am looking for a way to pass a single instance of <code>pieceLoc</code> that lives within "the parent class" Game to two "children classes" where <code>pieceLoc</code> can be directly manipulated <em>without</em> using additional parameters.</p> <p>If passing the array as a parameter does end up being the more idiomatic thing to do, would I be able to get an example of how passing by reference works in Objective-C?</p> <p>Thanks for the help!</p>
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