thechouzanone / algorithmcompare

AlgorithmCompare

Note: this only works for windows systems

This project was developed to illustrate the difference between DFS, BFS and A* algorithms, by allowing the user to create a maze in a grid and observe how every algorithm behaves in order to find its objective.

If you want to run this project I recommend creating a virtual environment for it. You can also just install the required Python 3 dependencies but the first option is probably better.

First you will need to install Python 3.8 (probably any Python 3 version works, but only this one has been tested) and venv package via pip:

python -m pip install virtualenv

Then, on the root directory of this repo create your virtual environment:

python -m venv .

and activate it using the following scripts depending on your shell:

Shell	Command
Powershell	Scripts/Activate.ps1
CMD	Scripts/activate.bat

To finish configuration, install the required dependencies with pip by running

pip install -r dependencies.txt

and run the project:

python src/main.py

Remember, every time you want to run this project you will need to activate the virtual environment.