Game Algorithms & Strategies

There Is No Spoon – Episode 2 is one of my favorite puzzles on CodinGame. It consists of solving a game of Hashiwokakero. It…

Four weeks ago, more than 3,500 programmers joined the online programming contest Coders of the Caribbean, aka “CotC.” At the time I write this,…

The best strategies of the Ghost in the Cell contest

Fantastic Bits has been a lot of fun. Congratulations again to the three winners Magus, reCurse and pb4! They have been eager to explain…

In programming, you want to avoid complexity. It makes your code difficult to read and  troublesome to maintain. That’s what is meant by the design…

We gave you a mission: take the role of Christian Wolff, aka “The Accountant”, and secure data that was threatened by his enemies. Simple…

Which of these two algorithms, Breadth-First Search (BFS) or Depth-First Search (DFS) algorithm, should you implement and in which situation? In our latest online…