⚓️ Ahoy, Coders!

• Prepare to embark on a coding adventure across the digital seas in this epic 5-day mission: Building Battleship in Python! Whether you're a programming private or a Python pirate, you’ll be tasked with creating your very own version of the classic board game — right in the terminal.

This project is your first step toward designing a fully interactive version in Pygame. But for now, it’s all about mastering the fundamentals of Python: loops, lists, strings, and a splash of strategy. So grab your keyboards, steady your aim, and get ready to sink some ships — code-style.

Welcome to Day 1 of your Battleship build, where we dive headfirst into the thrilling waters of tactical code warfare! 🫡

In today’s mission, you’re not just writing code—you’re charting the open sea. Your job? Create the battlefield: a 10×10 grid where the fate of tiny invisible ships will be decided by well-placed guesses and glorious Python logic.

But here’s the catch — the ships are sneaky. They’re lurking beneath the waves (and by “waves,” we mean squiggly tildes ~) and you won’t be placing them yourself. The computer will randomly hide them, and it’s up to you to uncover them using input, logic, and a splash of luck.

🎯 Your Objectives for Part I:

🧱 Build and display a 10x10 game board with proper labels (A–J, 0–9). <-- TODAY'S TASK

⚙️ Randomly place 3 hidden ships on the board (1 cell each) and then display the board <-- TODAY'S TASK

💥 Mark hits with an X, misses with an O, and show the updated board after every guess.

Welcome to the Terminal Battlefield.

🖥️ No GUI. No mercy. Just grit, grids, and glorious code.

🎯 Goal: Display a 10x10 board with labeled rows/columns, like the classic game Battleship.

🧱 Step 1: Creating the Game Board Using a 2D List

• 🎯 Objective:

  • • We need to create a game board in Python that’s shaped like a grid — 10 rows and 10 columns — just like the classic Battleship game. Each square in the grid will start with a water symbol ~.

    • We’ll store this board in Python as a 2D list, which means a list that contains other lists — one for each row.

🎯 Goal: Hide 3 single-cell ships randomly on the board — then show them!

🧭 Mission Objective

• In the Battleship game, the enemy doesn’t tell you where their ships are — that would be cheating! So today, we’ll simulate the hidden ships using Python. Your job is to randomly generate 3 secret ship locations on the board. They won’t be shown to the player — but they’ll be tracked by the computer, and checked later when the player guesses.

• These ships will each take up only one square (for now), and no two ships can be placed in the same location.

🔍 What You’re Doing

• • Use Python’s random module to generate random coordinates.

  • Store each ship’s position as a (row, column) pair.

  • Use a list to keep track of all ship positions.

  • Make sure no duplicates are added (each ship must be on a unique square).