Code - Battle Royale Demo part 1

// Battle Royale Linked List Demo

// Part 1: Creating a linked list using a function
// that creates a single node.
// Looping through the list and printing out the names

// Marc Chee (cs1511@cse.unsw.edu.au) October 2020

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

#define MAX_NAME_LENGTH 100

struct player {
    struct player *next;
    char name[MAX_NAME_LENGTH];
};

struct player *create_player(char *newName, struct player *newNext);
void printPlayers(struct player *playerList);

int main(void) {
    struct player *head = NULL;    
    head = create_player("Marc", head);
    head = create_player("Chicken", head);
    head = create_player("Aang", head);
    head = create_player("Katara", head);
    
    printPlayers(head);
    
    return 0;
}

// create player allocates memory for a new player and
// populates it with newName and newNext.
// returns a pointer the the newly created player
struct player *create_player(char *newName, struct player *newNext) {
    struct player *newPlayer = malloc(sizeof (struct player));
    strcpy(newPlayer->name, newName);
    newPlayer->next = newNext;
    return newPlayer;
}

// takes the pointer to the head of a list of players
// prints their names, one per line
void printPlayers(struct player *playerList) {
    struct player *curr = playerList;
    while (curr != NULL) {
        //fputs(curr->name, stdout);
        //putchar('\n');
        printf("%s\n", curr->name);
        curr = curr->next;
    }
}