Building a Sudoku game without coding using Amazon Q Developer

I was experimenting with Amazon Q developer for the “Build Games Challenge: Build Classics with Amazon Q Developer CLI” and decided to develop a game of Sudoku.

The process is straightforward,

1. Create an Amazon Builder ID.
2. Install the Amazon Q extension in Visual Studio Code.
3. Sign in to your Amazon Builder ID with the extension.
4. Enter your requirements, and it will generate all the necessary files to run the application.

It was impressive that I didn’t need to open the application code before running it!

I wrote a brief prompt:

“Create a Sudoku game with pygame. I need the game to be having features like — highlighting the selected cell, show the numbers already present in the game with the same number”.

The game was generated quickly. All I had to do was run two commands: install prerequisites with pip install -r requirements.txt and then python sudoku.py.

I tested the game for functionality and added features. I specified,

Once the game is finished, it should give a success message,

and

Add a feature to show the game difficulty level — super easy, easy, medium and hard.

I tested the game, and it worked as expected. Excellent coding (not coding) experience.

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You can find the generated code here https://github.com/sujithrpillai/sudoku

I recommend exploring this feature of Amazon Q to enhance your coding experience.