Getting Started:
A program for creating 'American Crosswords' like what you would see in NYTimes.
To prepare this as an eclipse project: gradle build eclipseClasspath
To update if the Eclipse project is failing to build: gradle cleanEclipseClasspath build eclipseClasspath
(Do not use eclipseClean, because it will overwrite the formatter preferences).
Overview:
You supply a word list in JSON which is an array of word objects and word group objects. The wordlist format is demonstrated below. Word objects define a word to place in the crossword and a score to reward the alogirthm for successfully placing the word in the crossword. Word groups contain words, and allow word usage to be further qualified.
[ { "min": 0, "max": 1, "words":[ { "word":"elephant", "score":50 }, { "word":"mammoth", "score":10 } ] }, { "only": [0,2], "words":[ { "word":"power", "score":100 }, { "word":"ranger", "score":100 } ] }, { "word":"ninja", "score":1 }, { "word":"samurai", "score":5 }, { "word":"monk", "score":7 } ]