From the course: Code Clinic: Swift
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Intro: Eight queens - Swift Tutorial
From the course: Code Clinic: Swift
Intro: Eight queens
(robotic whirs and clicks) - [Instructor] Hello and welcome to the third problem of the Code Clinic series. This challenge is a computer science classic, The Eight Queens. It's an excellent example of the use of recursion, subroutines, loops, and functions, rather than using one large monolithic set of instructions. In addition, because this is a classic problem proposed in 1848, it's already been solved for almost programming language every created and, as a result, is a way to compare the advantages and disadvantages of many approaches. The problem is simple. Start with a standard chess board and eight queens. Place The Eight Queens on the board so that no queens can attack each other. If you've never played chess, you'll need to understand that a queen can attack by moving an unlimited number of spaces horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. This means that no two queens can share a column, row, or diagonal line. For The Eight Queens problem, there are 92 solutions. In the…
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