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Pacman – Pac-dots Randomiser

Administrator — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 14:06:58 +0000

In this challenge, we are looking at using a 2D Array to create the maze used in a Pacman Game. Our 2D array will contains different numerical values to represents the corridors, walls and the pac-dots: So in our 2D-array…

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Laser Maze Game in Python

Administrator — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:36:49 +0000

In this Python programming challenge, we are going to recreate the game “Laser Maze”. The aim is to redirect a laser beam across a given stage in order to reach the exit gate of the stage. The laser can only…

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A Python game of Noughts and Crosses

Administrator — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 23:00:28 +0000

In this blog post, we will focus on using a 2D array to create a 3×3 game of noughts and crosses. We will investigate the code using a step by step approach. You can follow the steps described below and…

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2D Dice Grid Scoring Algorithm

Administrator — Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:51:16 +0000

This challenge is based on a 4×4 grid of dice (16 dice in total). Each game starts by shaking the grid to generate a new grid of 16 values. All dice are 6-sided dice, generating random values between 1 and…

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Diagonal Difference Calculator

Administrator — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 10:01:14 +0000

Let’s consider a square matrix of n x n. (n columns and n rows). The diagonal difference of a square matrix is the absolute difference between the sums of its diagonal. Let’s look at an example based on the following…

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Level generation using a 2D array

Administrator — Mon, 16 Dec 2019 22:53:26 +0000

In this post we will investigate how to generate a level/stage for a platform game using a 2D array. We will focus on the level for a 2D platform game such as Super Mario: By applying a grid layout to…

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Shuffling a 2D Array

Administrator — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 22:35:23 +0000

For this challenge we will investigate how to create a 2D array to store the value from 1 to 100 in a 10×10 array. We will then write an algorithm to shuffle the content of this array. See the code…

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Boggle Challenge

Administrator — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 19:49:08 +0000

Boggle is a word game based on a 4×4 grid of 16 letters. Each time the game is played a new grid is generated. In the real game this is done by shaking a cube that contains 16 letter dice.…

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My Weekly Timetable

Administrator — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 15:03:36 +0000

A school timetable is displayed as a 2D table consisting of 5 rows (for each day of the week) and 5 columns (number of lessons in a day). Such a table can be stored in a computer program using a…

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Four-in-a-row challenge!

Administrator — Mon, 21 May 2018 09:07:17 +0000

In this blog post you will use Python Code to complete this simulation of the game of connect 4. (Rules of the game) You will first need to reverse-engineer the code provided. The code so far is used to: Display…

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