rjsikarwar / sixdegreesofkevinbacon

A solution to the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon game

SixDegreesOfKevinBacon

This repository contains my solution to an assignment given during my secoond year at Aberystwyth Univsersity in 2009. As part of an alogirmths and data structures module, I was asked to provide an efficient solution to the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon problem.

Suggested Improvements

• The original data source for movies and actors was a text file download from IMDB. This no longer exists, and it would be desirable to find a new source of this data which is up to date.
• Bacon numbers are currently worked out at run time. This is ineffcient and can lead to delays of several second when searching. Re-work this so that all bacon numbers are calculated during the initialisation phase.
• The user is required to enter the actors names in a precise format, this should be simplified to a first last format. Providing suggestion for actors with identical names would also be a useful change.