sudoku

I've noticed that solving a sudoku is something of a rosetta stone for how people program.

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Chances are that your first Sudoku solver uses some bruteforce approach, while your manual solution certainly does not.

Another way to solve Sudoku is to understand that it is an instance of the Exact Cover problem [1].

But Jeffries starts writing a bunch of tests for a the low-level details of the representation of a sudoku board.

My father, approaching 70, does Sudoku with his breakfast every morning to keep his mind sharp.

The goal of Sudoku is to make your intellect work and find logic by yourself.

I learned so much by studying this code, and understanding it allowed me to write a sudoku generator.

I was learning algorithms then and a sudoku solver was both fun and a good learning exercise.

I said that by using a program to solve your Sudoku problem, you would not think anymore.

This is good to know that we can win Sudoku with a computer program but not surprising.

The article should be named: How to win every Sudoku puzzle by cheating.

Basically, solving a 3x3 Sudoku grid is nothing more than finding 9 "sheets" of each number which superimpose exactly on top of the grid.

If you're using TDD to write a sudoku solver, surely the first thing you should write is a test for your "solve_sudoku" function; then your design is supposed to evolve out of the code you write to pass that test (and the further tests you write for parts of that solution, iteratively).

Yes, in Windows 8 / 8.1 Solitaire (as well as other casual games published by Microsoft, such as Minesweeper, Sudoku, etc.) did include ads.