Convert the constraint pattern to a regular expression to check for words from the possible list that match the constraints like letter positioning, length of words.

The words with pattern matches are not being returned with their values. Only the sorted word is being returned.

How is the scoring going to be handled for blank tiles?

To create the regex pattern for input constraint

Creating the method for input the tiles and constraint. Fetch all words with given tiles(may include blank tile). Calling pattern matching and return all possible words

Generate a new input rack based on the players' tiles and the board constraints.

Team 1's function calls BlankHandling in case of a blank in the rack. What does the blank function return?

Change the variables names to meaningful ones in the files - ScrabbleWordSuggestor and Word

test the list of words passed with the given constraint and return those that are matching the pattern

Write Unit Test cases for your code and test them. Reply when each of you are done creating and testing them. I'll close the issue.

Based on Jayasruthi's method, we'll be creating a descending list of dictionary words based on its score.
With each word in the sorted list, compare it with the input and remove the characters from the word if its present in the input.
If resultant string is empty, it means the word is found.
If it not empty and if blank spaces are required, the number of remaining words can be used to compare the required blank spaces.

List out the API calls in your team's classes

Harish, Neel and Mohanish discuss and conclude to which task each of you are going to work on.

The print function in ScrabbleWordRecommender uses a HashMap<String, String> same as your input. But your return type is not matching.

The input structure from the user is not formatted properly. The dictionary should be generated once the object is created. Then a getInput method or something should be called.

Need a regular expression match that differentiates between any number of characters and particular number of characters.

The final result of possible words is not being sorted to print in descending order. Add a sort function to convert take input as HashMap and return TreeMap.

I'm updating the readme to specify each member's task.

What all functions from pattern matching you need( there input parameters and output). Please Specify.
We have two functions now
public String appendConstraintLetters(String constraintPattern, String tiles) ;
public List String applyPatternMatching(List String possibleWords, String constraintPattern) ;

Please integrate them asap in the code. we need to do testing.

The Word object is no longer being used.
The structure is changed to Map<String, String>
Key = sorted word
Value = "score anagram1 anagram2 . . ."
(similar to anagram map)

The Character_A constant is being assigned an ASCII value which will return error. Change to a character constant of 'A'.

Everyone Please add Package name as ScrabbleTeam3.

Compare and find all possible words from the anagram map for the particular input rack

Get the player's input rack and constraints from the board, if any.

I cannot understand the workflow at all.
Explain in simple terms what the algorithm is. And what is the role of each team in terms of Implementation.

Creating the anagram map from the dictionary file to store all words in the format:
key = anagram string ; value = all possible strings with that anagram

Which character is used as Blank Tile?

Our findPossibleWords will return a HashMap<String, String>
String 1 is the Key = sorted word
String 2 is value = "score word1 word2 word3 . . ."

But you have implemented a List. How are we change that?

Check if the results match the constraint pattern from the board.

I have changed the Word class' variable names.

But, why was the WORD named as value and SCORE named as key?

Jayasruthi, Shravan and Ekansh discuss about which task each of you are gonna perform so that I can create issues for each of you.

The scoring of blank tiles becomes an issue if we aren't using a Map. Also as Aravind was saying at lunch, the top 5 words returned by the generate_words function might not be the actual top 5 words. If the blank tile is replaced with a high value tile then these words will jump to the top and other words might be lost.

How do we distribute the work amongst the three of us? I have a basic running code which gives the desired output or do you want to start from scratch
@aravindsrivats @aravindram94

Two word classes. Please remove the one in ScrabbleWordSuggester.java. Team 1

Any ideas on how to sort the dictionary, given that the score is embedded in the value?

What are the data structures that we are going to use?
The sowpods.txt will be stored in the following map :
map <sorted letters word , an array list of all the anagrams>