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build me a path finding algorithm to solve a type of puzzle that occurs in many video games

£20-250 GBP

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The basic version that we will be dealing with is this: .....0...S ....0..... 0.....0..0 ...0....0. .F......0. .0........ .......0.. .0.0..0..0 0......... .00.....0. The player starts at the location labelled “S” and wants to reach the finish, labelled “F”. Each turn they choose one of the four cardinal directions to move. However, except for S and F the floor is covered in frictionless ice, so they will keep sliding in the chosen direction until they hit the wall surrounding the area, or one of the rocks (labelled “0”). For example, starting in the map given above: .....0...@ ....0..... 0.....0..0 ...0....0. .F......0. .0........ .......0.. .0.0..0..0 0......... .00.....0. the player (“@”) moving left would end up here: .....0@..S ....0..... 0.....0..0 ...0....0. .F......0. .0........ .......0.. .0.0..0..0 0......... .00.....0. So we are dealing with the problem of finding a path from S to F, but the reachability relation between points is not the usual one. Tasks to be performed: Task 1 : Set up a project in netbeans Java Task 2 : Choose and implement a data structure that can represent maps such as the one in the example. It must provide the necessary infrastructure for finding a shortest path from the start to the finish. Task 3 : Add a simple parser that can read a map like the one in the example from an input file. It needs to determine the width and height and the locations of the start and finish square as well as the rocks. The structure of the files will look like in the example, i.e., use ‘.’/’0’/’S’/’F’ for empty (ice) squares, rocks, the start and the finish. Your parser should be able to handle all input files which have this format. We will provide benchmark examples for your performance analysis, but you may also want to create some yourself to test your implementation. Task 4 : Choose and implement an algorithm that finds the shortest path from the start to the finish in any given map, if one exists (all the benchmarks we provide will have a solution). It should output all the steps of the solution it found, e.g., for the example above: 1. Start at (10,1) 2. Move left to (7,1) 3. Move down to (7,2) 4. Move left to (6,2) 5. Move down to (6,10) 6. Move right to (8,10) 7. Move up to (8,8) 8. Move right to (9,8) 9. Move up to (9,6) 10. Move left to (3,6) 11. Move up to (3,1) 12. Move left to (1,1) 13. Move down to (1,2) 14. Move right to (4,2) 15. Move down to (4,3) 16. Move left to (2,3) 17. Move down to (2,5) 18. Done! Where the squares are numbered left to right, top to bottom. To be submitted: • Your zipped source code (for Tasks 1 to 4) in Java netbeans I have uploaded file with all the benchmarks as I said above the program should have a parser to read these files.
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Hi there, I have thoroughly gone through your project description, I'm an expert and I can help you. Kindly send me a message. I am a senior engineer with rich experience in Java, Algorithm, Netbeans. I am a Python developer with 5+ years of experience Skills: PyQt, PySide/PyQt,Scrapy, BeautifulSoup Java, C++, C#, SQL, 4, Pillow, Matplotlib, Xml, PHP, Django json, and csv modules. Expert in statistical analysis of datasets/images and apply ML/DL algorithm with python (Tensorflow, Keras,Pytorch) and R. I am interested in taking up this task for you and I hope I could awake your interest in me. Please kindly send me a message in chat window for more about the project and to adjust price, note price quoted in bid is not the final price, it can be less or more after discussing the project. I am always online, work hard and very sensitive to details. I hope to read from you in chat box. Best regards
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Hello? How are you? Thanks for posting this job. I am a Senior Java developer with 7+ years experience in JavaFX and Java Swing. I have been doing this kind of Java projects many times. Please let me know. Best Regards
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