Programming Sudoku

Wei-Meng Lee

Nov 2006 · Apress

About this ebook

Sudoku is a wildly popular 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.

Ratings and reviews

I really enjoyed using this book. It was great fun to create the program. I especially enjoyed the way the programming was taught. I had basic and one course in html, but had not tried visual basic yet. First we learned the code for solving the simple sudokus and then added the harder and harder problem-solving code. I now would like to find a similar book for kakuro. Its alot more fun to learn visual basic this way.

I already have my own solving sudoku program with out using any library

About the author

Wei-Meng Lee is a technologist and founder of Developer Learning Solutions, a technology company that specializes in hands-on training for the latest Microsoft technologies. Wei-Meng speaks regularly at international conferences and has authored and coauthored numerous books on .NET, XML, and wireless technologies.