This project is just an excuse to learn some basic path-finding algorithms, cmake and ncurses, as well as refreshing my C++.
Debug mode compilation is enabled by default. There's a line to change it to
Release in the CMakeList.txt file in the root directory.
Also the default behaviour of the path finding alrotihms allows moving through
diagonals, which can be changed by removing ALLOW_DIAGONALS definition from
the CMakeList.txt file inside the src/ folder.
I used Introduction to the A* Algorithm from Red Blob Games as reference for understanding and coding the algorithms (a good part of the code is actually borrowed from there).
Wikipedia's A* search algorithm, Breadth-first search and Dijkstra's algorithm articles were also of great help.
For ncurses,
NCURSES Programming HOWTO by Pradeep Padala
was my guide alongside the project documentation (man ncurses.3x).
The hardest part was defining more colors, but I could figure it out after
reading
About ncurses Colors by Jim Hall
and noticing that the standard colors go from index 0 to 15 and high intensity
colors are not defined in ncurses (or so I think).
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