"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...
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...
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...