This is my ineligible solution to the first challenge of the 2024 Summer of LabVIEW. I created it to see how quick I could get via the unholy (and unsporting) alliance of LabVIEW and C++.
Please try it out and open an issue if you have any questions.
Given a 2D array of letters and a list of words to find, return a map of words with the positions of each letter. Try to code as efficient an algorithm as you can as submissions will be ranked by how fast they complete the word search correctly. Challenge ends at 11:59 UTC on June 22 and submissions beyond that time will not be scored.
LabVIEW 2020 Community Edition or later
If you plan on building the C++ code into binaries you will need a compiler that supports the C++ 20 standard (specifically std::span) such as
- MSVC on Windows (2019 onwards)
- GCC on Linux (10 onwards)
You will also require CMake 3.5 onwards
A copy of the binaries is included in this repository so you can just clone and go but if want to make changes to the C++ code, binary builds are managed via CMake - check for CMake integration in your IDE for ease of use.
An example .vscode configuration for building and connecting the C++ debugger is provided for both platforms for VS Code users.
Use CMake to configure, build and install the Release version for maximum performance
The licence specified covers the code created by the author and any contributors
word-search-solver.cppCMakeLists.txtLV-Solver.viCpp-Solver.vi.vscodeexample files and misc.gitconfiguration files
The other code supplied in this repository is either from Summer of LabVIEW - WordSearch by Illuminated G distributed under the MIT licence or from Darren Nattinger and Chrisian Altenbach who I hope are happy with me distributing it in this way 😅🤞
A bonus branch exisits which demonstrates LabVIEW Managed Memory allocation from the C++ code.