petestmart / word-find-solver-homespotter

Word Find Solver for HomeSpotter code challenge

Word Find Solver

This Word Find Solver will take in a Word Find and pick out words that are at least four letters in length. Words may go up, down, left, or right.

Built With

This version uses React, Redux, Express, Passport, and PostgreSQL.
A full list of dependencies can be found in package.json.

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Before you get started, make sure you have the following software installed on your computer:

• Node.js
• PostrgeSQL
• Nodemon

Installation Instructions

• Run npm install
• Start postgres if not running already by using brew services start postgresql
• Run npm run server
• Run npm run client
• Navigate to localhost:3000

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Completed Requirements

• Will find all 4 letter or longer words
• Will find words in any direction: up, down, left, or right (not diagonal)
• Will handle arbitrarily sized puzzle inputs
• The solution does print out the list of found words
• The solution removes words that are subsets (Won't return "broke" and "broker": only "broker")

Bugs To Fix

• Duplicate words print to DOM

Next Steps

• Remove Console Logs
• Clean up layout
  • Display solution in more than one column to prevent user needing to scroll
• Design
  • Color Buttons
  • Add color to Page
  • Different color header (possibly add an app bar)
• Display user submitted puzzle
  • When user submits a word find, have the word find display on the DOM
  • Highlight words in wordfind when user hovers over the word in the found words list
• Ways to increase efficiency
  • Remove short words on server side
  • DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)
    • Consolidate repeated code
    • Combine functions into one where it makes sense to do so