maze

i am unable to find the algo of short path plz help in this??

"Bob has become lost in his neighborhood. He needs to get from his current position back to his home. Bob's neighborhood is a 2 dimensional grid, that starts at (0, 0) and (width - 1, height - 1). There are empty spaces upon which bob can walk with no difficulty, and houses, which Bob cannot pass through. Bob may only move horizontally o...

Simple iPhone accelerometer ball-maze game

I want to make a simple 2D game where the user has to navigate a ball through a maze (using the accelerometer of course). I used a simple view to make use of the accelerometer and move a ball on the screen. Now how do I go about building the maze? Would I have to use cocos2d or something similar? How do I make the ball stop or rebound wh...

Count the number of "holes" in a bitmap

Consider a MxN bitmap where the cells are 0 or 1. '1' means filled and '0' means empty. Find the number of 'holes' in the bitmap, where a hole is a contiguous region of empty cells. For example, this has two holes: 11111 10101 10101 11111 ... and this has only one: 11111 10001 10101 11111 What is the fastest wa...