I agree with Carl. You may also enjoy reading a post about my Boggle solver when you're done with yours:
http://jeapostrophe.github.io/2012-05-14-boggle-post.html On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Jingjing Duan <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been reading HTDP and I'm about half way through. To apply what I've > learned in the book to a bigger exercise, I decided to write a boggle > solver. > > You can find the code here: > https://github.com/jduan/boggle_scheme/blob/master/boggle.rkt > > Any feedback is greatly appreciated. I'm specifically looking for feedback > on: > > 1. Did I break the problem into right components? > 2. How can I make the code more idiomatic? > 3. Why is code so slow? It can take minutes to solve a 4 by 4 board. The > same board can be solved by a ruby program I wrote in much less time, like a > few seconds. I know recursive functions are a big reason but is there > anything? > > Thanks, > Jingjing > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > -- Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> Assistant Professor / Brigham Young University http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~jay "The glory of God is Intelligence" - D&C 93 ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
