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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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 here. Only the most elementary human-style solving...

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Posted: Jul-24-2007

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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 the author put more emphasis on solving algorithms and less...

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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 minimal amount of exposure toVB.On the downside, a lot of the...

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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 Sudoku is covered as a step by step process on developing a...

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Posted: May-10-2006

Better than a Starter Kit

Microsoft has hung it's hat on 'starter kits' for Visual Basic .Net Express (2005) both as a learning tool and as a starting point for developers. However those who have tried to use them have found the examples to date to be buggy, hard to understand, excessively complicated and almost...

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Posted: Apr-27-2006

ok, but limited

The main problem I see with this book is that the techniques presented are hard to transfer to non-game situations. The main reason is that VB.NET is not a suitable choice of language for this problem. When I first opened the book, I expected a book on resolution-based logic programming or...

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Posted: Apr-01-2006

A decent start, but does not deal with advanced strategies

This is a short, straight-forward book that shows the reader how to create a simple sudoku program for Windows. I read this book cover to cover in about 2 hours. It is a very practical introduction to programming a sudoku application in Visual Basic 2005 (I'm not sure what book the previous...

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