ReadMe.txt

Readme for SliderAI: Programming 142

A program to solve a slider puzzle (8 tile, 15 tile, etc.).


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Author: Aaron Covrig, Stephen Ermshar
        CPTR142 A & B

Date: 14 March 2017

Purpose of program:  Write a program that can solve an arbitrarily sized tile puzzle and return the list of moves for the best solution.


Includes:  main.cpp
           slider_Board.h
           slider_Board.cpp
           slider_functions.h
           slider_function.cpp

Acknowledgements: - https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr10/cos226/assignments/8puzzle.html
                  - http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/check-instance-15-puzzle-solvable/
                  - http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mdr/teaching/modules04/java2/TilesSolvability.html
                  - https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/csep573/10wi/2-search.pdf
                  - http://theory.stanford.edu/~amitp/GameProgramming/Heuristics.html
                  - stackoverflow.com
                  - cppreference.com
                  - cplusplus.com

Known bugs:  - No input validation 
                  - doesn't prevent the user from putting in chars or strings etc. where they should put in ints
                  - doesn't check for duplicates when the user inputs the layout

If there are any special instructions to the User for executing the program.
	The system currently assumes the last tile of the goal is the target blank tile: [[1, 2, 3],
											  [4, 5, 6],
											  [7, 8, 0]]