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I’ve made a couple of previous attempts at developing Sudoku solvers, one naive approach which didn’t work too well, and a second, more informed attempt implementing Donald Knuth’s Algorithm X, which works incredibly well. I thought I would turn this around and instead of building a solver, attempt to build a puzzle generator. As I …
Continue reading “Grading the difficulty of a Sudoku puzzle”
I’ve finally reached a point where I have a complete end to end Sudoku generator, a human puzzle grader, and an updated React frontend to load generated puzzles. The integration with the solver is still there. The latest version is deployed here: http://sudoku-solver.kevinhooke.com/. I’ve plenty of material to share from this journey, so more posts …
Continue reading “Sudoku solver, generator, puzzle ranker, with a React frontend”
In the first part of converting my Sudoku solver React app from using Flux to Redux I looked at creating the Redux Store, Action Creators, reducers, and connecting Components to the Store. In this part 2 I’m taking a look at using redux-thunk for making my api calls. Async API calls are integrated into a …
Continue reading “Updating my React Sudoku Solver app: Replacing Flux with Redux (part 2)”
A while back I built a React frontend for a AWS Lambda Sudoku solver. At the time I used Flux (original source for this app is here), but I’m taking a look at updating it to replace Flux with Redux. As a starting point I took another example React app, a simplest case app using …
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