Sudoku

Interactive Sudoku game and step-by-step solver to demonstrate principles of OOP (inheritance, polymorphism, testing, etc)

Contents Start Instructions Gameplay Testing

Start

1. Install SDL2 framework
2. Get a font (.ttf file)
3. Run with ./run.sh and you will find a few options
4. Fun options include
   1. ./run.sh -type cp
   2. ./run.sh -type vp
   3. ./run.sh -type vcp -walkthrough y
   4. ./run.sh -type vcp -file puzzles/input3.txt -autosave y (pretty pictures)
   5. ./run.sh -type vcp -autosave y (pretty pictures with test players)
5. After you compile once, feel free to comment it out in run.sh

Instructions

1. Use Player class to play text-based
   1. create your own board
   2. Load a text file
2. Use VisualPlayer class to play visual version - this includes helping numbers!!!
   1. Press 'space' to add helping number
   2. Press 'a' to add all available helping numbers (very helpful for technique)
   3. Double-click a helping number to remove it
   4. Press 'c' to clear all helping numbers
3. Use CompPlayer class to solve a puzzle text-based (techniques are currently incomplete)
   1. Use walkThrough option to click through step-by-step solution
   2. autoSave option provides nice text file summary
4. VisualCompPlayer class to solve a puzzle visually
   1. Use walkThrough option to click through step-by-step solution
   2. autoSave option provides nice image summary

Gameplay

Helping Numbers

Testing

1. Get Catch2 header file
2. ./run.sh test