Creating A Random Maze - Step 2

◀ Creating A Random Maze - Step 1▶ Creating A Random Maze - Step 3 Amazon Let’s apply the 2nd step of the Four-Step Programming Model to generate a random maze!

Four Step Programming Model: Step 2
As we already discussed, we need to keep track of attributes of each cell somehow. I use vector to store them. I need double to store the horizontal and vertical offsets when displaying the maze.

Next, I need to store the width, height, and number of cells in int variables; I need to store the names of the files in char*; I need 2 vector: one stores the solution to the maze and the other stores the available cells to randomly pick while knocking down walls.

Finally, I probably need an int as an index for a loop. Given these decisions, I update my skeleton as follows:

void remove(int);
void findSol(int, int);
void displaySol();

class Maze{
public:
Maze(int);
int find_root(int);	
	void union_cell(int, int);

vector<int> s;  /* parent's id */
	vector<double> xcoord;  /* right down coordinate x */
	vector<double> ycoord;  /* right down coordinate y */
/* for the next two vectors, -1 means down, 0 means must be up 1 means up */
	vector<int> down;	  /* lower wall; knocked down or there */
	vector<int> right;  /* right wall; knocked down or there */
vector<int> visited;  /* 1 means visited and 0 means not visited yet while finding solution */
};
/*
precondition: n must be a positive integer
postcondition: s, xcoord, ycoord, down, right, visited are assigned values
*/
Maze::Maze(int n){
- same
}
/*
precondition: n must be >= 0 and < s.size()
postcondition: return the root of n
*/
int Maze::find_root(int n){
- same
}
/*
precondition: root1 and root2 both must be >= 0 and < s.size()
postcondition: root1 and root2 belong to the same set
*/
void Maze::union_cell(int root1, int root2){
- same
}

int main(int argc, char** argv){
- exit if something is missing in the command line
double xOffset, yOffset;
int width, height, numOfCells, i;
char *file, *file2;
ofstream fout, fout2;
vector<int> lottery, sol;
- exit if the user provides unacceptable information
- initialize the random number generator
- store critical data in variables
- push all elements into a vector except the last one because it has no walls to knock down
- use a while loop to construct the maze
- inside the while loop
	randomly choose a cell
	deal with the case when the cell has 2 neighbors
	deal with the case when the cell has only 1 neighbor 
- generate code for Matlab to display the maze
- find and put solution code in the solution file
}
/*
precondition: victim should, but not must, be an element in the vector that holds all cells
postcondition: victim is erased from the vector
*/
void remove(int victim){
- same
}
/*
precondition: from and to must be >= 0 and < numOfCells
postcondition: find the solution
*/
void findSol(int from, int to){
- same
}
/*
precondition: none
postcondition: put code for displaying the maze in file2
*/
void displaySol(){
- same
}

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