Why implement a countdown timer When performing a task that will take some time it is useful to show how long it has taken, and how long to go. In this section we will implement […]
We had managed to generate a completed puzzle from scratch in the previous section, following the first step of creating a viable solver. The next step is to take the completed puzzle and remove cells from it till […]
Planning Solving according to strategies is pretty straightforward. Generating puzzles is more complex and exercises your comfort with recursion. In general terms generating a puzzle follows these steps Create an empty grid Use brute force […]
Strategies The first step is to put together a basic solver. In Sudoku, there are 3 Regions – Row, Column and Box, but you probably know that already if you are reading this. Other terminology […]
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