Best of Comp

Winter 2021 Showcase

The Code-Breakers

Through incredible collaboration, talent, and efforts, this year has seen some of COMP250's most robust ever student testers. See the full showcase below.

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Emma Tomiuk

Human-like Solving

The aspect of my code that greatly optimized the performance was the use of a hashtable that mapped keys – integers that represented a specific cell on the sudoku grid...

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Charles Lapierre

Eliminating Excess Steps

I decided to implement some preliminary logic before executing the backtracking because it would reduce the number of variables to change...

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Louis Hildebrand

Human-like Solving

The possible values for every blank cell are found at the beginning of the algorithm. Whenever a change is made to the grid, the cells in the same row, column, and block are also updated right away...

The Chart Toppers

In our competitive final assignment, these students took their projects to the next level, creating some of the fastest chess sudoku solvers in the world. Learn more about their techniques on onfactorial.com/stories.

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