CMU 15-112 Summer 2020: Fundamentals of Programming and Computer Science
Collab 5 (Due Wed 27-May, at 11:59pm)




  1. areLegalValues(values) [15 pts]
    With your group, read the problem statement for isLegalSudoku from hw5. Understand the terminology, our board representation, and the generalization we've made. Then, as part of collab5, write the areLegalValues(values) helper function. You may use this function as a helper in your hw5 file.

  2. isKingsTour(board) [15 pts]
    Background: in Chess, a King can move from any square to any adjacent square in any of the 8 possible directions. A King's Tour is a series of legal King moves so that every square is visited exactly once. We can represent a Kings Tour in a 2d list where the numbers represent the order the squares are visited, going from 1 to N2. For example, consider these 2d lists:
       [ [  3, 2, 1 ],        [ [  1, 2, 3 ],      [ [ 3, 2, 1 ],
         [  6, 4, 9 ],          [  7, 4, 8 ],        [ 6, 4, 0 ],
         [  5, 7, 8 ] ]         [  6, 5, 9 ] ]       [ 5, 7, 8 ] ]
    
    The first is a legal Kings Tour but the second is not, because there is no way to legally move from the 7 to the 8, and the third is not, because it contains a 0 which is out of range. Also, this should work not just for 3x3 boards but for any NxN board. For example, here is a legal Kings Tour in a 4x4 board:
        [ [  1, 14, 15, 16],
          [ 13,  2,  7,  6],
          [ 12,  8,  3,  5],
          [ 11, 10,  9,  4]
        ]
    
    With this in mind, write the function isKingsTour(board) that takes a 2d list of integers, which you may assume is NxN for some N>0, and returns True if it represents a legal Kings Tour and False otherwise.