This project is a simulation of a 2D world that illustrates the interaction between participants in the IT labor market in 2023.
All actions take place on a grid. There are 10 rows and 9 columns.
The simulation contains three types of immovable entities:
- 🏠 houses
- 🌳 trees
- 💰 venture capital funds' money
There are also three types of entities that can move:
- 🧔 employers
- 👶 juniors
- 🎓 programming courses
The empty cells are filled with a black circle: ⚫
Example of a filled grid:
- 🧔 employers are looking for money -> 💰
- 👶 juniors are looking for employers, they need a job and the resources of an employer -> 🧔
- 🎓 programming courses are looking for juniors, they need new students -> 👶
One step can be spent:
- moving towards the target 🏃♂️🏃♀️
- attacking the target in an neighboring cell 🧍🤺
Each step towards the target requires energy and reduces HP of movable entities 📉
Entity can move vertically, horizontally and diagonally. But they cannot pass through cells that are occupied by other entities.
There can be three situations where an entity finds a target in an adjacent cell:
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an employer (🧔) finds money (💰): the money disappears from the grid. The employer's HP is rising up 🔋
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a junior (👶) finds an employer (🧔): the employer's HP is decreasing
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a programming cours (🎓) finds a junior (👶): the junior's HP is decreasing. If the junior's HP is above a certain value, then the course creates another new junior in a randomly selected cell. And the programming course's HP is rising up
When the HP of an entity reaches zero, it disappears from the grid.
On each new turn, the simulation can add a random number of entities from 0 to 3 inclusive for each type of entity to randomly selected cells. This applies to the following entities:
- 💰 money
- 🧔 employers
- 👶 juniors
- 🎓 programming courses
Movable entities use the A* (A star) algorithm to find a route to the nearest target.
The algorithm in this project was implemented based on the description that you can find here.
The program has a console view. Pressing the Enter key causes the simulation to pause/resume. Pressing the e + Enter keys ends the program
