TC1017 Final Project – Sudoku

What to Do

You will create a text based version of Sukoku in teams of 2 (1 person if no partner is available). The idea is to have a final project which shows your mastery of the topics in this course.

Specification Details

• First task is form a team and send Ken both of your GitHub users so he can create your repository (with the starting codebase).
• Deadline for submission: before 5pm May 6, 2015
• All code must be on GitHub. Ken will create a repository and add each of the team members as contributors. Part of the mark is the consistent submission of code changes over the time for the project.
  We expect to see a balance of commits from each member as well.
• Teams of two people (from either of my 2 groups of the course).
• Text only, color implemented using ANSI sequences which we use to show a 3×3 grid as correct as well as original versus user numbers.
• Both members need to understand the code, you can (and should) import libraries for your work including possibly the use of colors.
• The program should take a textfile as argument to the program to select/set the initial table.
• The “fixed” (original) number should be shown in a different color (suggestion: red) and the numbers written by the users in another color (green).
• The user should be able to exit the program, restart with the same table, print instructions, print history about Sodoku, write a number and remove a (user-placed) number.
• Writing a number requests three items: the number, the row and the column. If the move is illegal, the move is not executed and a message is presented to the user stating why (number already used in this row/column/grid or location already used, etc.)
• Delete a number requests two items: row and column. Obviously a permanent number cannot be deleted.

You can do this with arrays or Vectors, but you will need to know eventually how to do both. How would you structure your code in the best way to make the change from Vectors to arrays (or vice-versa) simple?

Video Explanation

Grading

• 5 marks – meets minimum functionality requested.
• 5 marks – blog post describing your experience of the project which will include your “log” of weekly activities over the 8 weeks of the project.
• 3 marks – code style. Did you follow best practice? See Mastery#08
• 2 marks – constant work and commits to GitHub. The commits should definitely be spread well over the last 4 weeks of the course and not just “at the last moment” in the last week.

What to Submit

As usual, create a blog post (or series of posts) explaining what you did, where you found resources (books, videos, web pages, friends) to help you solve this.

The commits to your GitHub repository are your submissions of code. I will use the state of the GitHub repository at the deadline for marking purposes.

And of course, leave any questions here as well as asking those questions on Twitter with the hashtag #TC1017 so we all see your question posted there.

Also put a #PROJECT hashtag to identify it as the project.

Team GitHub Repositories

1. Bryant and Oswaldo: https://github.com/kenwbauer/BryantOswaldo
2. Ale and Gonazalo https://github.com/kenwbauer/AleGonzalo
3. Rodrigo and Juan Carlos: https://github.com/kenwbauer/RodrigoJuanCarlos
4. Samir and José Luis: https://github.com/kenwbauer/SamirJoseLuis
5. Ivanna and José Eduardo: https://github.com/kenwbauer/IvannaJoseEduardo
6. Mitzi and Pablo: https://github.com/kenwbauer/PabloMitzi
7. Jorge and Luis: https://github.com/kenwbauer/JorgeLuis
8. Jair and Armando: https://github.com/kenwbauer/JairArmando
9. Aurora and Juan Pablo: https://github.com/kenwbauer/AuroraJuanPablo
10. Josué and Eduardo: https://github.com/kenwbauer/JosueEduardo
11. Edgar and Christian: https://github.com/kenwbauer/EdgarChristian
12. Diego and Mauricio: https://github.com/kenwbauer/DiegoMauricio
13. Monserrat and Yahaira: https://github.com/kenwbauer/MonserratYahaira
14. Osvaldo and Fernando: https://github.com/kenwbauer/OsvaldoFernando
15. Luis Angel and Fernando: https://github.com/kenwbauer/LuisAngelFernando
16. Héctor and Tania: https://github.com/kenwbauer/HectorTania
17. Carlos and Carolina: https://github.com/kenwbauer/CarlosCarolina
18. Juan Pablo and Juan Pablo: https://github.com/kenwbauer/JuanPabloSquared
19. Eduardo and Juan: https://github.com/kenwbauer/EduardoJuan
20. Juan Francisco and Asa: https://github.com/kenwbauer/JuanFransicoAsa
21. Carlos and Olaf: https://github.com/kenwbauer/CarlosOlaf
22. Salvador and Alan: https://github.com/kenwbauer/SalvadorAlan

TC1017 Final Project – Sudoku by Ken Bauer is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.