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Coding Challenge #71: Minesweeper

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In this challenge, I attempt to code the classic game Minesweeper in JavaScript with the p5.js library. Code: https://thecodingtrain.com/challenges/71-minesweeper 🕹️ p5.js Web Editor Sketch: https://editor.p5js.org/codingtrain/sketches/-mz-ePoqd 🎥 Previous video: https://youtu.be/N8Fabn1om2k?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH 🎥 Next video: https://youtu.be/giXV6xErw0Y?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH 🎥 All videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH References: 📑 Minesweeper on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minesweeper_(video_game) 🌊 Floodfill on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_fill 🐱 Minesweeper suggestion on GitHub: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Rainbow-Topics/issues/164 Videos: 🎥 Prototypes in JavaScript: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS_WqkyUah8 🎥 Inheritance with Prototype in JS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpmE5twq1h0 🔴 Coding Train Live 92: https://youtu.be/zxR7KfVMGqk?t=2282s Related Coding Challenges: 🚂 #3 The Snake Game: https://youtu.be/AaGK-fj-BAM 🚂 #46 Asteroids: https://youtu.be/hacZU523FyM 🚂 #67 Pong!: https://youtu.be/IIrC5Qcb2G4 🚂 #91 Snakes & Ladders: https://youtu.be/JrRO3OnWs5s 🚂 #115 Snake Game Redux: https://youtu.be/OMoVcohRgZA Timestamps: 0:00 Welcome! 1:26 All aboard! 2:36 Explaining the logic of the game 4:31 Defining the cells 11:03 Let's make a show() function using object protypes! 17:30 Checking if mouse is inside a grid 20:15 Revealing the cells after clicking 22:58 Checking how many bees are neighboring a particular cell 34:20 Starting to work on the game mechanic! 41:50 Let's implement floodfill! 48:45 Defining when the game is over 51:11 Minesweeper! 53:12 Thanks for watching! Editing by Mathieu Blanchette Animations by Jason Heglund Music from Epidemic Sound 🚂 Website: http://thecodingtrain.com/ 👾 Share Your Creation! https://thecodingtrain.com/guides/passenger-showcase-guide 🚩 Suggest Topics: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Suggestion-Box 💡 GitHub: https://github.com/CodingTrain 💬 Discord: https://thecodingtrain.com/discord 💖 Membership: http://youtube.com/thecodingtrain/join 🛒 Store: https://standard.tv/codingtrain 🖋️ Twitter: https://twitter.com/thecodingtrain 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the.coding.train/ 🎥 Coding Challenges: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6ZiZxtDDRCi6uhfTH4FilpH 🎥 Intro to Programming: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqwX-V7Uu6Zy51Q-x9tMWIv9cueOFTFA 🔗 p5.js: https://p5js.org 🔗 p5.js Web Editor: https://editor.p5js.org/ 🔗 Processing: https://processing.org 📄 Code of Conduct: https://github.com/CodingTrain/Code-of-Conduct This description was auto-generated. If you see a problem, please open an issue: https://github.com/CodingTrain/thecodingtrain.com/issues/new #games #prototypes #floodfill #javascript #p5js

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{'title': 'Coding Challenge #71: Minesweeper', 'heatmap': [{'end': 1196.883, 'start': 1157.451, 'weight': 1}], 'summary': 'Covers the host programming minesweeper in javascript from scratch, taking around 45 minutes to an hour, creating game objects, implementing a 20x20 grid using a 2d array with object-oriented programming, handling mouse events, debugging game mechanics, and implementing a flood fill algorithm to reveal adjacent cells, including game features like markers and animation.', 'chapters': [{'end': 141.774, 'segs': [{'end': 30.842, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 0.269, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 2.591, 'text': 'Hello! Welcome to another coding challenge.', 'start': 0.269, 'duration': 2.322}, {'end': 4.613, 'text': "In this coding challenge, I'm going to make Minesweeper.", 'start': 2.651, 'duration': 1.962}, {'end': 6.054, 'text': 'I actually already did the coding challenge.', 'start': 4.813, 'duration': 1.241}, {'end': 8.416, 'text': "I'm recording a quick intro so you can see what's going to happen.", 'start': 6.074, 'duration': 2.342}, {'end': 9.477, 'text': "It's about, it's a long one.", 'start': 8.436, 'duration': 1.041}, {'end': 13.34, 'text': "It's about somewhere between 45 minutes and an hour, I will point out.", 'start': 9.497, 'duration': 3.843}, {'end': 20.146, 'text': "It took me less time to make Minesweeper than it took me to make Pong, which goes to show you how my brain doesn't really work in normal ways.", 'start': 13.56, 'duration': 6.586}, {'end': 21.707, 'text': 'Pong should really be simpler, I think.', 'start': 20.426, 'duration': 1.281}, {'end': 23.469, 'text': 'But anyway, this is Minesweeper.', 'start': 21.747, 'duration': 1.722}, {'end': 28.601, 'text': "It's actually B-Sweeper, but because these are bees and not mines.", 'start': 23.849, 'duration': 4.752}, {'end': 29.461, 'text': "But it doesn't really matter.", 'start': 28.661, 'duration': 0.8}, {'end': 30.842, 'text': 'The point of this game is that you click.', 'start': 29.502, 'duration': 1.34}], 'summary': 'Coding challenge to create minesweeper took 45-60 mins, faster than pong.', 'duration': 30.573, 'max_score': 0.269, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E269.jpg'}, {'end': 125.455, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 94.721, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 96.423, 'text': 'the number three requested.', 'start': 94.721, 'duration': 1.702}, {'end': 99.966, 'text': 'topic Minesweeper.', 'start': 96.423, 'duration': 3.543}, {'end': 103.308, 'text': 'Thank you to fire soul, who suggested this on August 14th 2016.', 'start': 99.966, 'duration': 3.342}, {'end': 103.829, 'text': 'today is May 12, 2017,', 'start': 103.308, 'duration': 0.521}, {'end': 117.069, 'text': "so I didn't get to it within a year and And I have never programmed this before and I think probably the last time I played Minesweeper was it's gotta be at least 15 years ago,", 'start': 103.829, 'duration': 13.24}, {'end': 118.17, 'text': 'but I do know how it works.', 'start': 117.069, 'duration': 1.101}, {'end': 120.131, 'text': "So I'm just gonna get started.", 'start': 119.27, 'duration': 0.861}, {'end': 125.455, 'text': "Let's see, I expect this is probably gonna take, if I can do this in under 60 minutes, that's gonna be good for me.", 'start': 120.171, 'duration': 5.284}], 'summary': 'Topic: minesweeper. requested on august 14, 2016. attempting to program within 60 minutes.', 'duration': 30.734, 'max_score': 94.721, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E94721.jpg'}], 'start': 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'duration': 406.154, 'highlights': ['Creation of 2D Array for Cell Storage The speaker discusses the creation of a 2D array to store cell objects for the game board, opting for a grid of 20x20 cells within a canvas size of 200x200.', "Object-Oriented Programming for Cell Methods The speaker explains the use of object-oriented programming in JavaScript to attach methods to the prototype of cell objects, enabling the implementation of functions like 'show' for each cell.", "Error Handling in Array Creation The speaker encounters and rectifies errors related to array creation, ensuring the function 'make2darray' returns the array and addressing the 'show is not a function' error by defining the 'show' function."]}], 'duration': 550.741, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E141934.jpg', 'highlights': ['The process of creating the cell object for the Bee Sweeper game is expected to be challenging and time-consuming, contrary to initial expectations of it being easy and quick.', 'Creation of 2D Array for Cell Storage The speaker discusses the creation of a 2D array to store cell objects for the game board, opting for a grid of 20x20 cells within a canvas size of 200x200.', "Object-Oriented Programming for Cell Methods The speaker explains the use of object-oriented programming in JavaScript to attach methods to the prototype of cell objects, enabling the implementation of functions like 'show' for each cell."]}, {'end': 1137.174, 'segs': [{'end': 785.607, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 757.076, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 759.839, 'text': 'The rows is the height divided by that size.', 'start': 757.076, 'duration': 2.763}, {'end': 766.806, 'text': "And probably what I should also do is say floor because I don't want to have like 21.3 columns or 21.7 rows.", 'start': 761.517, 'duration': 5.289}, {'end': 770.652, 'text': 'It needs to be a whole number, an integer value.', 'start': 766.826, 'duration': 3.826}, {'end': 785.607, 'text': "So let's see, how are we doing here? Now that I've done that, I can make each cell at its i times w location, or its j times w location.", 'start': 775.865, 'duration': 9.742}], 'summary': "The cells' positions are determined by multiplying their row or column number by a given width to obtain integer values.", 'duration': 28.531, 'max_score': 757.076, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E757076.jpg'}, {'end': 843.064, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 818.225, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 827.469, 'text': "It's 20 by 20 a bit 40 comma 20, so I need to calculate its pixel location By multiplying, by taking the its index I comma J,", 'start': 818.225, 'duration': 9.244}, {'end': 834.317, 'text': 'and expanding it by the number of pixels, which is the size and Yay, yay me and setting the grid size things.', 'start': 827.469, 'duration': 6.848}, {'end': 838.901, 'text': 'Okay, so now, ah, and its size is just w.', 'start': 834.537, 'duration': 4.364}, {'end': 840.242, 'text': 'So again some funny.', 'start': 838.901, 'duration': 1.341}, {'end': 842.124, 'text': 'you know, none of this is really going to change.', 'start': 840.242, 'duration': 1.882}, {'end': 843.064, 'text': "there's a need to be in the object.", 'start': 842.124, 'duration': 0.94}], 'summary': 'Calculating pixel location by multiplying index and size in 20x20 grid', 'duration': 24.839, 'max_score': 818.225, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E818225.jpg'}, {'end': 1021.131, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 987.281, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 998.145, 'text': "Let's just say if random one is less than .5, then this.b is true, otherwise this.b is false.", 'start': 987.281, 'duration': 10.864}, {'end': 1004.848, 'text': "So now about half of them randomly are going to be b's, and there we go.", 'start': 999.266, 'duration': 5.582}, {'end': 1007.769, 'text': "So now we see we're on our way to actually making this game.", 'start': 1005.108, 'duration': 2.661}, {'end': 1013.247, 'text': 'Okay, so we now have a setup where we have a grid.', 'start': 1009.525, 'duration': 3.722}, {'end': 1014.968, 'text': 'Each cell has a state.', 'start': 1013.267, 'duration': 1.701}, {'end': 1018.47, 'text': 'It can be a B or not a B, and we can visualize that.', 'start': 1015.108, 'duration': 3.362}, {'end': 1021.131, 'text': 'B design aside.', 'start': 1019.85, 'duration': 1.281}], 'summary': "Randomly assigning half the cells to be 'b's, setting up grid for game.", 'duration': 33.85, 'max_score': 987.281, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E987281.jpg'}, {'end': 1078.804, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1048.802, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1050.083, 'text': 'Click on it, reveal it.', 'start': 1048.802, 'duration': 1.281}, {'end': 1059.426, 'text': 'So now what I need to do is I need some sort of function to determine if the mouse has clicked on that particular cell.', 'start': 1050.463, 'duration': 8.963}, {'end': 1063.227, 'text': 'So one way to do that, first of all, would be to write a function.', 'start': 1059.926, 'duration': 3.301}, {'end': 1067.839, 'text': 'contains x, y.', 'start': 1064.538, 'duration': 3.301}, {'end': 1069.54, 'text': 'So, in other words, I want to.', 'start': 1067.839, 'duration': 1.701}, {'end': 1070.721, 'text': 'this is a function.', 'start': 1069.54, 'duration': 1.181}, {'end': 1077.023, 'text': 'I want to be able to say does this cell contain a point??', 'start': 1070.721, 'duration': 6.302}, {'end': 1078.804, 'text': 'Is that point inside this cell??', 'start': 1077.323, 'duration': 1.481}], 'summary': 'Develop a function to determine if a point is inside a cell.', 'duration': 30.002, 'max_score': 1048.802, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E1048802.jpg'}], 'start': 693.015, 'title': 'Creating a grid of rectangles', 'summary': 'Discusses creating a grid of rectangles, calculating the number of columns and rows, setting the grid size, colorizing the rectangles based on conditions, and preparing a mechanism to reveal the cells when clicked.', 'chapters': [{'end': 1137.174, 'start': 693.015, 'title': 'Creating grid of rectangles', 'summary': 'Discusses creating a grid of rectangles, calculating the number of columns and rows, setting the grid size, colorizing the rectangles based on conditions, and preparing a mechanism to reveal the cells when clicked.', 'duration': 444.159, 'highlights': ['Calculating the number of columns and rows by dividing the width and height by the cell size, ensuring the result is a whole number.', "Setting the grid size by multiplying the index with the size to calculate each cell's pixel location.", 'Colorizing the rectangles based on conditions, such as drawing an ellipse when the cell contains a specific value, and randomly assigning a state to cells.', 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1157.451, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1162.035, 'text': 'Return x being between the left and right and y being between the top and bottom.', 'start': 1157.451, 'duration': 4.584}, {'end': 1175.395, 'text': 'Why am I doing this? Because what I also want to do now is handle the mousePressed event.', 'start': 1163.476, 'duration': 11.919}, {'end': 1187.931, 'text': "So using p5, there's a global function called mousePressed where what I can do is I can say, now I can say if grid contains mouseX comma mouseY.", 'start': 1175.435, 'duration': 12.496}, {'end': 1196.883, 'text': 'I wrote that function because What I want to do is say let me check every single.', 'start': 1189.773, 'duration': 7.11}, {'end': 1200.466, 'text': 'let me check every single spot in the grid to see if it contains.', 'start': 1196.883, 'duration': 3.583}, {'end': 1203.148, 'text': 'when the mouse is pressed, to see if it contains the mouse point.', 'start': 1200.466, 'duration': 2.682}, {'end': 1205.75, 'text': "If it does, that's a point that I've clicked on.", 'start': 1203.468, 'duration': 2.282}, {'end': 1207.892, 'text': 'And now I can do something about that.', 'start': 1206.17, 'duration': 1.722}, {'end': 1210.274, 'text': 'I can say grid ij reveal.', 'start': 1207.972, 'duration': 2.302}, {'end': 1214.457, 'text': 'So I can execute a function like reveal.', 'start': 1212.255, 'duration': 2.202}, {'end': 1218.621, 'text': 'So let me now go into the cell object and I can write a new function.', 'start': 1215.698, 'duration': 2.923}, {'end': 1221.68, 'text': "called reveal, and here's the thing.", 'start': 1219.577, 'duration': 2.103}, {'end': 1226.466, 'text': 'I want to say this.revealed equals true.', 'start': 1221.7, 'duration': 4.766}, {'end': 1231.132, 'text': "So even if I clicked on it before and it's already true, it's true.", 'start': 1228.208, 'duration': 2.924}], 'summary': 'Use mousepressed event to reveal grid spot when clicked.', 'duration': 55.697, 'max_score': 1157.451, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E1157451.jpg'}, {'end': 1290.406, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1259.227, 'weight': 4, 'content': [{'end': 1265.257, 'text': 'So, whoa, what craziness is going on? Oh, this is the mistake.', 'start': 1259.227, 'duration': 6.03}, {'end': 1267.32, 'text': 'Look at that.', 'start': 1265.317, 'duration': 2.003}, {'end': 1271.566, 'text': "It's the opposite of the usual this.mistake.", 'start': 1267.6, 'duration': 3.966}, {'end': 1273.89, 'text': 'And this is a bit of a problem.', 'start': 1271.987, 'duration': 1.903}, {'end': 1285.343, 'text': 'This is a very common programming headache-y thing, which is that These variables are the arguments to the function, the parameters of the function.', 'start': 1273.91, 'duration': 11.433}, {'end': 1286.423, 'text': "They're coming in.", 'start': 1285.363, 'duration': 1.06}, {'end': 1290.406, 'text': "And I'm testing them against the object's own x and y.", 'start': 1287.044, 'duration': 3.362}], 'summary': 'Identifying and addressing common programming errors in function parameters.', 'duration': 31.179, 'max_score': 1259.227, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E1259227.jpg'}, {'end': 1424.689, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1389.356, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1398.35, 'text': "I'm going to call it count neighbors, And I wonder if that's something.", 'start': 1389.356, 'duration': 8.994}, {'end': 1400.651, 'text': "yeah, I'll just do it on the fly.", 'start': 1398.35, 'duration': 2.301}, {'end': 1403.352, 'text': 'Count neighbors equals a function.', 'start': 1400.791, 'duration': 2.561}, {'end': 1407.933, 'text': 'Okay, so first I want to do is just say total is zero.', 'start': 1403.872, 'duration': 4.061}, {'end': 1411.254, 'text': 'And maybe I could call this count bees or something.', 'start': 1409.254, 'duration': 2}, {'end': 1421.128, 'text': 'So first of all, if this cell is a b, return negative 1.', 'start': 1412.635, 'duration': 8.493}, {'end': 1424.689, 'text': "Let's just say if it's a b, return negative 1, because it's irrelevant.", 'start': 1421.128, 'duration': 3.561}], 'summary': 'Creating a function to count neighbors, setting initial total to 0.', 'duration': 35.333, 'max_score': 1389.356, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E1389356.jpg'}, {'end': 1760.547, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1733.078, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 1739.56, 'text': "I've got to make the full grid, because I can't count neighbors if I haven't made certain cells that are next to that one.", 'start': 1733.078, 'duration': 6.482}, {'end': 1744.002, 'text': 'So I could just count the neighbors when I click on it, but I might as well just count them all.', 'start': 1739.82, 'duration': 4.182}, {'end': 1756.362, 'text': "That way, when I click on it, what I can actually do here is In the display, right, where's my show function? If it's a B, it's got a circle.", 'start': 1744.302, 'duration': 12.06}, {'end': 1760.547, 'text': "If it's not, I can also say text.", 'start': 1756.463, 'duration': 4.084}], 'summary': 'Creating a full grid to count neighbors for better functionality.', 'duration': 27.469, 'max_score': 1733.078, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E1733078.jpg'}], 'start': 1137.294, 'title': 'P5 mouse events and neighboring bees', 'summary': 'Discusses handling mouse events in p5, creating a function to check if the grid contains the mouse point and executing a reveal function, alongside counting neighboring bees in a grid and the development of a function to achieve this, including the use of loops and conditional statements to determine the count.', 'chapters': [{'end': 1356.987, 'start': 1137.294, 'title': 'Handling mouse events in p5', 'summary': "Discusses handling mouse events in p5, creating a function to check if the grid contains the mouse point and executing a reveal function to change a cell's state when clicked.", 'duration': 219.693, 'highlights': ["Creating a function to check if the grid contains the mouse point and executing a reveal function to change a cell's state when clicked, allowing for interactive handling of mouse events in p5.", 'Identifying and fixing a programming mistake related to the parameters of the function, demonstrating problem-solving skills in debugging code.', 'Using explicit drawing instructions to visually represent the state of cells when clicked, ensuring clear visualization of the interactive functionality.']}, {'end': 1845.626, 'start': 1357.587, 'title': 'Counting neighboring bees', 'summary': 'Discusses the process of counting neighboring bees in a grid and the development of a function to achieve this, including the use of loops and conditional statements to determine the count, with a focus on ensuring accurate display of the count on the grid.', 'duration': 488.039, 'highlights': ['The process of creating a function to count the number of neighboring bees in a grid is detailed, involving the use of loops to iterate through each neighbor and conditional statements to determine the count, ensuring accurate display of the count on the grid.', 'The importance of accurately displaying the count of neighboring bees on the grid is emphasized, highlighting the use of text alignment and positioning to ensure the correct visual representation of the count.']}], 'duration': 708.332, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E1137294.jpg', 'highlights': ["Creating a function to check if the grid contains the mouse point and executing a reveal function to change a cell's state when clicked, allowing for interactive handling of mouse events in p5.", 'The process of creating a function to count the number of neighboring bees in a grid is detailed, involving the use of loops to iterate through each neighbor and conditional statements to determine the count, ensuring accurate display of the count on the grid.', 'Using explicit drawing instructions to visually represent the state of cells when clicked, ensuring clear visualization of the interactive functionality.', 'The importance of accurately displaying the count of neighboring bees on the grid is emphasized, highlighting the use of text alignment and positioning to ensure the correct visual representation of the count.', 'Identifying and fixing a programming mistake related to the parameters of the function, demonstrating problem-solving skills in debugging code.']}, {'end': 2494.881, 'segs': [{'end': 1931.479, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1845.966, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 1847.888, 'text': "So it's not counting the right number of neighbors.", 'start': 1845.966, 'duration': 1.922}, {'end': 1849.309, 'text': 'So something is clearly wrong.', 'start': 1847.928, 'duration': 1.381}, {'end': 1860.856, 'text': "So first of all, let's just see here, is this actually happening? 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Oh, there's all this stuff happening in the chat that I'm not looking at.", 'start': 2043.396, 'duration': 6.705}, {'end': 2052.342, 'text': 'OK OK.', 'start': 2050.261, 'duration': 2.081}, {'end': 2056.045, 'text': "Let's go.", 'start': 2055.565, 'duration': 0.48}, {'end': 2060.788, 'text': "I think we're just about ready to actually start making the game happen.", 'start': 2056.264, 'duration': 4.524}, {'end': 2065.152, 'text': 'So we can start working on the game mechanic.', 'start': 2062.55, 'duration': 2.602}, {'end': 2066.813, 'text': "So here's the thing.", 'start': 2065.871, 'duration': 0.942}, {'end': 2075.8, 'text': 'What I want to do now is Minesweeper, I think, starts with a fixed number of mines, or bees in this case.', 'start': 2067.955, 'duration': 7.845}], 'summary': 'Preparing to start game development for minesweeper with fixed number of mines.', 'duration': 32.404, 'max_score': 2043.396, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E2043396.jpg'}, {'end': 2229.553, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2193.194, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 2194.734, 'text': "So there's a variety of ways I could do this.", 'start': 2193.194, 'duration': 1.54}, {'end': 2198.255, 'text': 'I could check, is that already a B? 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When a cell is on an edge, it has fewer than 8 neighbors, requiring special handling.', 'Missing parentheses when calling a function led to incorrect behavior. The missing parentheses when calling a function resulted in incorrect behavior, emphasizing the importance of proper syntax.', "Incorrect function names led to 'grid is not a function' error. 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The missing parentheses when calling a function resulted in incorrect behavior, emphasizing the importance of proper syntax.', "Incorrect function names led to 'grid is not a function' error. The error 'grid is not a function' was caused by incorrect function names, highlighting the significance of naming functions accurately for proper execution.", 'Cells along the edge have fewer neighbors and need to be accounted for. When a cell is on an edge, it has fewer than 8 neighbors, requiring special handling.']}, {'end': 3213.296, 'segs': [{'end': 2591.645, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 2537.196, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 2539.437, 'text': 'Train helps thing pull into station.', 'start': 2537.196, 'duration': 2.241}, {'end': 2540.979, 'text': 'This is the trickiest part.', 'start': 2539.778, 'duration': 1.201}, {'end': 2552.73, 'text': "Okay I need to figure out a way to reveal all the adjacent cells that don't have a b.", 'start': 2543.36, 'duration': 9.37}, {'end': 2561.257, 'text': 'And if any of those adjacent cells also have a count of 0, all of the adjacent cells next to those should also be revealed.', 'start': 2552.73, 'duration': 8.527}, {'end': 2566.802, 'text': 'So how do I do that? Well, where do I need to start this? OK.', 'start': 2561.518, 'duration': 5.284}, {'end': 2567.122, 'text': 'Oh, yeah.', 'start': 2566.922, 'duration': 0.2}, {'end': 2568.504, 'text': 'This is basically flood fill.', 'start': 2567.162, 'duration': 1.342}, {'end': 2569.505, 'text': 'Someone is saying.', 'start': 2568.824, 'duration': 0.681}, {'end': 2571.871, 'text': 'Flood fill.', 'start': 2571.451, 'duration': 0.42}, {'end': 2573.833, 'text': 'This is like a flood fill algorithm.', 'start': 2572.392, 'duration': 1.441}, {'end': 2576.474, 'text': "Because what I'm, and maybe I'll come back to that at the end.", 'start': 2574.193, 'duration': 2.281}, {'end': 2579.056, 'text': "Google flood fill, I think we're kind of doing that all of a sudden.", 'start': 2576.574, 'duration': 2.482}, {'end': 2581.638, 'text': 'Which is exciting, embedded in this video here.', 'start': 2579.416, 'duration': 2.222}, {'end': 2587.662, 'text': 'Okay, so, flood fill from Wikipedia.', 'start': 2582.839, 'duration': 4.823}, {'end': 2591.645, 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2713.901, 'text': "I'm like thinking this through and I'm not able to say what I'm thinking.", 'start': 2710.84, 'duration': 3.061}, {'end': 2717.73, 'text': 'Right. so how does this work right?', 'start': 2715.529, 'duration': 2.201}, {'end': 2719.81, 'text': 'We want to look at all the neighbors.', 'start': 2717.77, 'duration': 2.04}], 'summary': "Code examines all neighbors to reveal them; aiming to exclude 'b'.", 'duration': 25.913, 'max_score': 2693.897, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E2693897.jpg'}, {'end': 3106.798, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 3076.853, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 3077.434, 'text': 'Ah, game over.', 'start': 3076.853, 'duration': 0.581}, {'end': 3083.52, 'text': 'So I think that we have now made Minesweeper.', 'start': 3080.037, 'duration': 3.483}, {'end': 3086.842, 'text': 'This took me about 50 minutes.', 'start': 3084.921, 'duration': 1.921}, {'end': 3087.863, 'text': "I'm under an 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'duration': 3.222}, {'end': 3193.083, 'text': 'so many possible things you could try to do.', 'start': 3190.662, 'duration': 2.421}, {'end': 3197.066, 'text': 'But there it is Minesweeper in under an hour.', 'start': 3193.083, 'duration': 3.983}, {'end': 3199.227, 'text': 'Multiplayer with a server is something you could do.', 'start': 3197.126, 'duration': 2.101}, {'end': 3200.728, 'text': 'I hope you make some variations.', 'start': 3199.507, 'duration': 1.221}, {'end': 3201.889, 'text': 'I hope you share those with me.', 'start': 3200.748, 'duration': 1.141}, {'end': 3209.133, 'text': 'And next week on my live stream, I will share hopefully a whole bunch of variations of things that people make with this game.', 'start': 3202.229, 'duration': 6.904}, {'end': 3213.296, 'text': 'B-Sweeper Thanks, and see you in a future coding challenge.', 'start': 3209.734, 'duration': 3.562}], 'summary': 'Created minesweeper game with css animations in under an hour, looking forward to seeing variations and sharing them in the next live stream.', 'duration': 25.856, 'max_score': 3187.44, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E3187440.jpg'}], 'start': 2495.802, 'title': 'Implementing flood fill algorithm and creating minesweeper game', 'summary': 'Discusses implementing a flood fill algorithm inspired by wikipedia to reveal adjacent cells with no neighbors and details the process of creating a minesweeper game in under an hour using javascript, including debugging and adding features like game over, markers, and flood fill algorithm animation.', 'chapters': [{'end': 2623.366, 'start': 2495.802, 'title': 'Implementing flood fill algorithm for revealing adjacent cells', 'summary': 'Discusses the challenge of revealing adjacent cells with no neighbors and implementing a flood fill algorithm to accomplish this task, inspired by the flood fill algorithm from wikipedia.', 'duration': 127.564, 'highlights': ["The challenge is to reveal all adjacent cells that don't have neighbors and then reveal cells adjacent to those with a count of 0, resembling a flood fill algorithm.", 'The speaker plans to implement a custom way of achieving the desired functionality rather than looking up the existing flood fill algorithm.', 'The discussion involves the concept of flood fill algorithm and its application in revealing the area connected to a given node.']}, {'end': 3213.296, 'start': 2626.13, 'title': 'Creating minesweeper game', 'summary': 'Details the process of creating a minesweeper game in under an hour using javascript, including debugging and adding features like game over, markers, and flood fill algorithm animation.', 'duration': 587.166, 'highlights': ['The chapter details the process of creating a Minesweeper game in under an hour using JavaScript, including debugging and adding features like game over, markers, and flood fill algorithm animation.', 'The speaker debugs the code to fix issues related to neighbor count, infinite loops, and game over conditions.', 'The speaker mentions completing the Minesweeper game in about 50 minutes and suggests adding features like markers, animation for flood fill algorithm, and sounds to enhance the game.', 'The speaker encourages sharing variations and improvements made to the game and mentions the possibility of creating multiplayer versions with a server in the future.']}], 'duration': 717.494, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/LFU5ZlrR21E/pics/LFU5ZlrR21E2495802.jpg', 'highlights': ['The chapter details the process of creating a Minesweeper game in under an hour using JavaScript, including debugging and adding features like game over, markers, and flood fill algorithm animation.', 'The speaker mentions completing the Minesweeper game in about 50 minutes and suggests adding features like markers, animation for flood fill algorithm, and sounds to enhance the game.', 'The speaker encourages sharing variations and improvements made to the game and mentions the possibility of creating multiplayer versions with a server in the future.', "The challenge is to reveal all adjacent cells that don't have neighbors and then reveal cells adjacent to those with a count of 0, resembling a flood fill algorithm.", 'The discussion involves the concept of flood fill algorithm and its application in revealing the area connected to a given node.', 'The speaker plans to implement a custom way of achieving the desired functionality rather than looking up the existing flood fill algorithm.', 'The speaker debugs the code to fix issues related to neighbor count, infinite loops, and game over conditions.']}], 'highlights': ['The host programs Minesweeper in JavaScript from scratch, taking around 45 minutes to an hour to complete.', 'The process of creating the cell object for the Bee Sweeper game is expected to be challenging and time-consuming, contrary to initial expectations of it being easy and quick.', 'Preparing a mechanism to reveal the cells when clicked by defining a function to determine if the mouse has clicked on a particular cell and defining the boundaries of the cells.', "Creating a function to check if the grid contains the mouse point and executing a reveal function to change a cell's state when clicked, allowing for interactive handling of mouse events in p5.", 'The chapter details the process of creating a Minesweeper game in under an hour using JavaScript, including debugging and adding features like game over, markers, and flood fill algorithm animation.']}