Of course, generating mazes is only half the fun: the real fun is to use them to set Reeborg on a treasure hunt:
Friday, June 19, 2015
Generating mazes
While Reeborg's World was primarily designed for beginners, it can be used to illustrate relatively advanced topics in a fun way. For example, one can generate mazes using a depth-first algorithm.
Of course, generating mazes is only half the fun: the real fun is to use them to set Reeborg on a treasure hunt:
Fairly large mazes can be generated, but it does take a fair bit of time. I'm using many generic functions written for the world editor to change the world configuration; these are well-tested and designed for fool-proof interactive use, adding or removing one element at a time. A more efficient way would be to manipulate directly the world object (implemented as a mixture of dict and lists - to use the Python terms, although they are in this case the javascript equivalents).
For those interested, the details can be found here.
Of course, generating mazes is only half the fun: the real fun is to use them to set Reeborg on a treasure hunt:
Andre'
ReplyDeleteI teach high school programming in Winder, GA. I've been using RUR-PLE as a way to bridge the transition from block-based coding, like Scratch, to text-based. I wanted to thank you for creating it as my students have enjoyed learning what they call "real programming".
Please contact me if I can help in anyway or if you'd like to video conference in a demonstration of what we do.
Chris