About me
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Hello everyone! First of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Samuel, but my online nick is 2lol555 (Steem does not allow for numbers at the start of usernames :/ ) 
I am a starting indie developer with around 1 and a half years of experience of programming in unity. I started in August of 2017, but I haven't been very active in pursuing learning to code since then. 
I have created some projects for fun, but none of them used too complicated backend scripts. I am starting my journey of becoming a better developer today!
Ok. Now that's out of the way...

Day 1 - BFS Pathfinding
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BFS pathfinding (or in other words Breadth-first search) is probably one of the most simple pathfinding algorithms out there. It consists of a grid of nodes (Waypoints) connected to one another. The algorithm just systematically searches through them, adding them into sort of an index, to find the shortest route (Based on city block measurements). To get a better explanation you can check out this awesome [Article by Red Blob Games](https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html)
As I mentioned before, I have some basic understanding and orientation around the Unity engine, so tackling this algorithm was not too hard but definitely a challenge. I created a grid system inside of unity, and rigged up the code necessary to index and trace paths on the tiles. The major challenge was choosing the data types of variables I needed to use. I settled on storing the tiles inside a Dictionary data structure and using lists for organizing the sifting through tiles, as you can add to the end and take things from the start without worry or crazy loops.
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Portfolio
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[Google Play store profile](https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=WAPPS+Studios)
[Github page](https://github.com/2lol555)