https://github.com/alessandrojcm/mazes-for-programmers

A Go implementation of Mazes for Programmers by James Buck using raylib
https://github.com/alessandrojcm/mazes-for-programmers

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A Go implementation of Mazes for Programmers by James Buck using raylib

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/alessandrojcm/mazes-for-programmers
• Owner: alessandrojcm
• License: mit
• Created: 2022-10-31T19:37:56.000Z (about 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-17T15:22:23.000Z (4 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-18T18:14:41.373Z (4 months ago)
• Topics: algorithms, game, go, golang, raylib, raylib-go
• Language: Go
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• Size: 176 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Mazes for Programmers

This book is a Go implementation for the book [Mazes for Programmers](http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/)

by James Buck.

It will be used mainly as a tool to learn Go, this book was chosen for

several reasons:

* It is very well written and provides fun challenges, thus keeping the reader interested

* The mazes are implemented using classic algorithms and data structures,

thus making you think

* It delves into graphically representing the mazes, hence a graphics library is needed. This is always fun

* Code samples are written in Ruby, being the high-level language that it is, Ruby provides a lot of "magic" built-in

that Go simply hasn't got. Thus, it forces us to find the most idiomatic way in Go of implementing these features; this

provides a very hands-on way of getting to know the language.

Code samples will be implemented pure Go, whereas for the graphics the Go bindings of [raylib](https://github.com/gen2brain/raylib-go)

will be used. Raylib is a simple library written in C (so it's written in a imperative way) that wraps the OpenGL API, it's made mainly to teach game development;

thus its API is very simplified while at the same time providing everything that is necessary for a 2D (and even 3D) application.

This module is structure like this (work in progress):

* `mfp` contains all the logic for the mazes, abstracted from graphic representation where possible

* `main` contains the application that calls the code defined in the above package