[olug] Programming Question

[jonny]

Well, I thought wp was for doing your home work:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmics_of_Sudoku

-Jonny

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Travis Owens wrote:
> Hello all... in one of my classes as school, we're tasked with developing a
> "Sudoku" like game using VB.NET (not my choice)
> 
> The instructor has reduced the scope from a 9x9 grid, to a 4x4 grid.
> 
> This isn't a requirement to the application at this point in the course, but
> I am interested in it anyway, so....
> 
> I'm wanting to randomly generate solved boards, then blank out several of
> the buttons on it. I'm having a problem figuring out the best way to keep
> track of the possible values when selecting one randomly, assigning it to a
> position on the board.
> 
> For those of you who may not understand Sudoku, my game board would be
> arranged like so:
> 
> *1 | 2   3 | 4
> --------------
> 3 | 4   2 | 1
> 
> 
> 2 | 1   4 | 3
> --------------
> 4 | 3   1 | 2*
> 
> 
> That would be one possible layout/solution to the board. The concepts are
> simple to understand:
> 
>    1. each button can increment 1-4.
>    2. each row must have 1-4 w/o duplicates (represented by blue)
>    3. same for each column (represented by *Italics*)
>    4. same for each quadrant (represented by highlights)
> 
> 
> What I'm trying to achieve, would be a way to assign the value each of the
> 16 buttons, while keeping track of the remaining values available for all
> three dimensions (Row/Column/Quadrant)
> 
> I have been looking at this so long, I can't seem to make headway on it
> anymore... most likely, I'm over complicating my approach.
> 
> Currently, I can get to each button on the board by walking through 4 nested
> loops of 2 counts each:
> 
> for 1 - 2   ( the Quadrant Column )
> for 1 - 2   ( the Quadrant Row )
> for 1 - 2   ( the column )
> for 1 - 2   ( the row )
> 
> 
> As I said above, I'm doing this in VB.NET, but if someone can provide an
> understandable method of doing this, I'll see if I can convert it for my
> purpose.
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated...
> 
>