These days, I’ve been trying my hand at some of the games in my constantly growing collection on Steam. One of those games, is BIT.TRIP RUNNER.
BIT.TRIP RUNNER, is a rhythmical, side-scrolling game, where the goal is to navigate a character, who you cannot stop from running, over pits and around obstacles. The game hosts some excellent pixel-art and a very pleasant soundtrack (one that adapts to your gameplay), and the controls are simple enough that anyone can get started with it. It’s no wonder that it is such a massive hit.
Recently, I’ve come to learn about a website called HackerRank. HackerRank provides programming challenges and contests, allowing users to practice programming or roughly gauge their skill level against other users. I’ve been doing a few challenges for a few evenings now, and would like to share my impressions, and eventually, walkthroughs of my growing collection of solutions.
I have a passion for problem solving that almost parallels my desire to engineer software to solve those problems for me. Thus, today, I would like to talk about my efforts of learning how to solve a Rubik’s cube and engineering software to solve it for me.