Wunderkuutio

A competition entry for http://www.wunderdog.fi/wunderkuutio/

Used technologies, tools and practices

JavasScript, ES6, Babel, Node.js, Mocha, JSHint
Ruby (1.8.7 because it's pre-installed in the hashicorp/precise64 box I used)
Ansible, shell scripting, Vagrant, Virtualbox
TDD

Results

Found a total of 1176 words (see RESULTS.md) in 7157 ms.

Implementation explained shortly

on npm test a ruby script reads the two raw txt files and generates two json files; one for words and one for the cube

words that contain characters which are not present in the cube are filtered out (less work for JavaScript)

the cube letters are mapped to x, y and z coordinate space
letter chains are processed recursively

invalid chains (e.g. 'aak') are cached and the next processed words with these letter chains are ignored immediately

Aimed for readable, testable and modular code. More detailed info in finder.js and tests.

Usage

If you have Vagrant and VirtualBox installed, you can get the project up and running in a matter of minutes:

git clone [email protected]:akinnunen/wunderkuutio.git
cd wunderkuutio
vagrant up
vagrant ssh
cd /vagrant
npm install
npm test

Getting rid of the project is even easier:

exit
vagrant destroy