Programming Challenge 16 Marked
Sunday October 5, 2008
Congratulations to Aliaksei Sanko from Belarus whose entry solved all 1,000 puzzles in three minutes. the other entrant (there were just two) took about fourteen minutes. Both entries were written in C++ and were the release versions. I tried Aliaksei's in debug mode and it took three times as long. You can download the source for both on the Programming Challenge 16 Page.
I've received two entries for Challenge 17 but it's early days; there are still nearly four weeks to go. If you want to see a pretty impressive implementation of Life, there's Golly in the C++ code library.
- Link to C++ Code Library
- Link to Programming Challenge Sixteen Solve 1,000 Sliding Puzzles
- Link to Programming Challenge Seventeen Implement Life to run as quick as possible
Comments
I was going to get all outraged because I had stumbled across this page researching algorithms: http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/misc/samples/games/article.php/c13607.
Then I noticed the byline.
Congrats, Aliaksei!