Grow Cube

This is a challenge exercise. It is not compulsory, and may be completed individually or with your lab partner.

Use your problem solving skills to solve this interesting and unusual puzzle “Grow Cube”

Resist the temptation to google the answer - the point of this exercise is for you to tackle an unfamiliar problem and not give up.

What you are to do

  1. First create a text file growcube.txt in your week 4 folder in which to jot down your notes thoughts and working.

  2. Briefly jot down down your thinking and notes as you are solving it.

  3. When you have solved it briefly write down how you approached the problem and reflect on how you would do it differently if you had to do a problem like this again.

  4. Submit your notes to record that you have completed the activity.

I’m ready let’s go

Brace yourself, note down your start time, and click on this link to start the puzzle: The GrowCube Puzzle.

No Spoilers

Please let your classmates have the fun of solving this problem for themselves- we never post answers or hints for Challenge Activities in the comments below. But you can encourage each other :)

Challenge++

Solve the puzzle with the volume turned up high.

To run Styl-o-matic:

$ 1511 stylomatic growcube.txt
Looks good!

You’ll get advice if you need to make changes to your code.

Submit your work with the give command, like so:

$ give cs1511 wk04_growCube

Or, if you are working from home, upload the relevant file(s) to the wk04_growCube activity on Give Online.