Programming Sudoku (Technology in Action)

I was fascinated with Wei-Meng Lees book on Sudoku programming. My interest stemmed from the subject matter, Sudoku, and the way in which Wei-Meng Lee structured his book.

? Thomas Wagner, wagnerblog.com

Sudoku is the wildly popular new puzzle game. Sudoku puzzles are 9x9 grids, and each square in the grid consists of a 3x3 subgrid called a region. Your goal is to fill in the squares so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1 through 9 exactly once. And some squares already contain numbers or symbols, which lend clues toward the solution.

Programming Sudoku provides you with great approaches to building and solving Sudoku and other similar puzzles. Using ingenious artificial intelligence and game theory techniques, you'll learn how to get a computer to solve these puzzles for you.

This is a fun, intriguing read whether you're a novice or advanced programmer. It acknowledges the.NET platform as a base, but you'll find this book interesting whatever your programming background. The core techniques in the book enable you to solve Sudoku on any programming platform.

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1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-02-2008; Superficial; This book might be an interesting case study for a novice Visual Basic programmer -- it devotes a lot of ink to UI programming -- but for someone interested in algorithms for solving and generating sudoku puzzles, there's not much value...; read full review | report as inappropriate

2/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-24-2007; blah; It's not all that good. Its basically a walk-through of a sudoku solver/generator that the author wrote, in VB(puke-a-tronic :P). It isn't very complicated, the solving strategies he uses are very basic. It would have been much better if...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-05-2006; Good, but could have had more math; This book does a good job of helping a person witheven minimal VisualBasic knowledge write what ends upbeing an powerful Sudoku generator and solver. I wasable to get through the example program and understandthe source code with a...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-28-2006; Programming Sudoku - a good book; Programming Sudoku (Technology in Action) (Paperback) by Wei-Meng LeeThis book teaches more than Sudoku, it covers the process of developing game logic development and intelligence.There are two games covered, Sudoku and Kakuro. Only...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jul-28-2006; Programming Sudoku - a good book; Programming Sudoku (Technology in Action) (Paperback) by Wei-Meng LeeThis book teaches more than Sudoku, it covers the process of developing game logic development and intelligence.There are two games covered, Sudoku and Kakuro. Only...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-05-2006; Good, but could have had more math; This book does a good job of helping a person witheven minimal VisualBasic knowledge write what ends upbeing an powerful Sudoku generator and solver. I wasable to get through the example program and understandthe source code with a...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-02-2008; Superficial; This book might be an interesting case study for a novice Visual Basic programmer -- it devotes a lot of ink to UI programming -- but for someone interested in algorithms for solving and generating sudoku puzzles, there's not much value...; read full review | report as inappropriate