Wordbox
This program creates a word search. It allows you to make multiple
puzzles with the same list of words. It is interesting to see children's
reaction because they expect all the puzzles to be the same. (You
can print some puzzles which are harder than others. If you put the
hard puzzles on the bottom, you can control which children get the harder
puzzles by "dealing from the bottom of the deck".)
When entering the list of words, a blank line terminates the list.
The program runs from the command line. It prints the puzzle to
stdout.
I wrote this program years ago. It's a C program. It has been
compiled on the Commodore 128, VAX, UNIX
and Microsoft C. These were all before ANSI C
was available. It should still compile, but it may generate warnings
for old syntax. The file port.h contains code to customize for different
systems.