Re: Recursion head scratcher

2009-12-02 Thread Dave Angel
Joel Madigan wrote: Hi everyone! Sorry this isn't strictly a Python question but my algorithms professor contends that given the standard recursive-backtracking maze solving algorithm: width=6 height=4 maze=[[1,0,1,1,0,1], [0,0,1,0,0,0], [1,0,1,0,1,0], [0,0,0,0,1,1]] visited =

Re: Recursion head scratcher

2009-12-02 Thread Tim Wintle
On Wed, 2009-12-02 at 02:07 -0500, Joel Madigan wrote: that it is possible to make it print the path to the finish in the order the steps were taken. That is, the algorithm as written produces: (4,0) (4,1) (3,1) (3,2) (3,3) (2,3) (1,3) (1,2) True Rather than (1,2) (1,3) (2,3) (3,3) (3,2)

Re: Recursion head scratcher

2009-12-02 Thread Joel Madigan
On 12/2/09, Dave Angel da...@ieee.org wrote: Joel Madigan wrote: Hi everyone! Sorry this isn't strictly a Python question but my algorithms professor contends that given the standard recursive-backtracking maze solving algorithm: width=6 height=4 maze=[[1,0,1,1,0,1], [0,0,1,0,0,0],