Graduate Assistance

I'm glad to realize that graduates from austin are coming in to help us with our project. They're using their own time to guide us through our android development which is quite encouraging. This past week we had another guider who graduated from UT Austin. He was a turing scholar, which is a prestigious title to have in the computer science department. This pretty much means he's a very skilled programmer and having him help us seemed just a bit excessive, but definitely worth it. We were finally able to tell why the game would stop before there was a real winner. He noticed that whether it be X's or O's, the game would stop when there were three of any in any order. This means that our program doesn't know how to differentiate between the two in some instance. Finding which instance this occurs in is the hard part because some times it works and other's it doesn't. We also came with a small-fix solution, in which we would get the computer to play atleast 5 moves before it stops, because every tic-tac-toe game requires atleast 6 moves for there to be a victor. But we quickly learned that it wouldn't actually solve the problem as the wrong winner would still be displayed after the 5 required moves and there's bound to be an error for forcing a game that wants to stop to go further.