C++ Quest

Destroy the mountains before your starship collides with one of them. For that, shoot the highest mountain on your path.

Rules

At the start of each game turn, you are given the height of the 8 mountains from left to right. By the end of the game turn, you must fire on the highest mountain by outputting its index (from 0 to 7). Firing on a mountain will only destroy part of it, reducing its height. Your ship descends after each pass.

Victory Conditions

You win if you destroy every mountain

Lose Conditions

• Your ship crashes into a mountain
• You provide an incorrect output or your program times out

Game Input

Within an infinite loop, read the heights of the mountains from the standard input and print to the standard output the index of the mountain to shoot.

Input for one game turn

8 lines: one integer mountainH per line. Each represents the height of one mountain given in the order of their index (from 0 to 7).

Output for one game turn

A single line with one integer for the index of which mountain to shoot.

Constraints

0 mountainH 9 Response time per turn 100ms

Sample starting code:

#include

#include

#include

#include

using namespace std;

/**

* The while loop represents the game.

* Each iteration represents a turn of the game

* where you are given inputs (the heights of the mountains)

* and where you have to print an output (the index of the mountain to fire on)

* The inputs you are given are automatically updated according to your last actions.

**/

int main()

{

// game loop

while (1) {

for (int i = 0; i < 8; i++) {

int mountainH; // represents the height of one mountain.

cin >> mountainH; cin.ignore();

}

// Write an action using cout. DON'T FORGET THE "<< endl"

// To debug: cerr << "Debug messages..." << endl;

cout << mountainH [0-7] "4" << endl; // The index of the mountain to fire on.

}

}