Author: Howexpert Press
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539314769
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
If you want to learn the basics of playing Sudoku puzzles quickly and easily for newbies and beginners, then get this "How To Play Sudoku" guide. In this step-by-step guide, you will rep the following benefits: - Be familiar with the the game rules. - Learn the basic way of doing Sudoku. - Get useful tips in solving Sudoku puzzle. - Be able to solve Sudoku puzzle in the shortest time possible. - Learn how to appropriately choose a candidate. - Solve different levels of Sudoku puzzle. - Amaze your friends and family to your new found hobby of solving sudoku. - And much more! Click "Buy Now" to get it now!
How to Play Sudoku
Author: Howexpert Press
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539314769
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
If you want to learn the basics of playing Sudoku puzzles quickly and easily for newbies and beginners, then get this "How To Play Sudoku" guide. In this step-by-step guide, you will rep the following benefits: - Be familiar with the the game rules. - Learn the basic way of doing Sudoku. - Get useful tips in solving Sudoku puzzle. - Be able to solve Sudoku puzzle in the shortest time possible. - Learn how to appropriately choose a candidate. - Solve different levels of Sudoku puzzle. - Amaze your friends and family to your new found hobby of solving sudoku. - And much more! Click "Buy Now" to get it now!
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539314769
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
If you want to learn the basics of playing Sudoku puzzles quickly and easily for newbies and beginners, then get this "How To Play Sudoku" guide. In this step-by-step guide, you will rep the following benefits: - Be familiar with the the game rules. - Learn the basic way of doing Sudoku. - Get useful tips in solving Sudoku puzzle. - Be able to solve Sudoku puzzle in the shortest time possible. - Learn how to appropriately choose a candidate. - Solve different levels of Sudoku puzzle. - Amaze your friends and family to your new found hobby of solving sudoku. - And much more! Click "Buy Now" to get it now!
Vintage Sudoku
Author: Princeton Architectural Press
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781648961212
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The ideal Sudoku gift for puzzle lovers, this beautiful, vintage Sudoku collection is packed with 150 classic brain-bending logic puzzles. Sudoku has never been more beautiful! A refreshing change from typical logic puzzle collections, this gifty Sudoku book features a stylish, ornate theme in a stunning yet portable package, inspired by vintage French signage. With a variety of levels and colorful numbered squares for contrast, this book is both an intellectual and visual pleasure to solve your way through. Whether you pack your puzzles to take on your commute or display this gorgeous collection on your coffee table to enjoy from the comfort of your own couch, this puzzle book will beat screen fatigue and keep your mind sharp.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781648961212
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
The ideal Sudoku gift for puzzle lovers, this beautiful, vintage Sudoku collection is packed with 150 classic brain-bending logic puzzles. Sudoku has never been more beautiful! A refreshing change from typical logic puzzle collections, this gifty Sudoku book features a stylish, ornate theme in a stunning yet portable package, inspired by vintage French signage. With a variety of levels and colorful numbered squares for contrast, this book is both an intellectual and visual pleasure to solve your way through. Whether you pack your puzzles to take on your commute or display this gorgeous collection on your coffee table to enjoy from the comfort of your own couch, this puzzle book will beat screen fatigue and keep your mind sharp.
Krazydad Two Not Touch Volume 1: 360 Star Battle Puzzles to Preserve Your Sanity in These Trying Times
Author: Jim Bumgardner
Publisher: Krazydad Two Not Touch
ISBN: 9781946855367
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
From krazydad, constructor of the wildly popular and addictive puzzles published in The New York Times as Two Not Touch, here are 360 of your favorite Star Battle puzzles. These puzzles will provide a healthy diversion for you in these challenging times, and help you make it to the other side with your sanity intact! Includes an instructive and pithy tutorial.
Publisher: Krazydad Two Not Touch
ISBN: 9781946855367
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
From krazydad, constructor of the wildly popular and addictive puzzles published in The New York Times as Two Not Touch, here are 360 of your favorite Star Battle puzzles. These puzzles will provide a healthy diversion for you in these challenging times, and help you make it to the other side with your sanity intact! Includes an instructive and pithy tutorial.
Big Book of Sudoku - Medium to Hard - 1000 Puzzles
Author: Beeboo Puzzles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781710844481
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Ultimate Challenge Sudoku Puzzle Book Grab this massive bargain bonanza of classic Sudoku puzzles of varying difficulty levels, expertly crafted and graded. There are plenty of puzzles to enjoy in this jumbo compilation, with 2 different levels of difficulty, which makes it suitable for intermediate and advanced sudoku players in love with this super addictive game: 500 Medium puzzles for intermediate players or as a warm up for experts 500 Hard problems which will give your brain a real challenge This book with hundreds of hours of fun inside makes a great gift! We've had your entertainment and convenience in mind when designing this book and thought about the small details which make a difference: Wide center margins making it easier to work on the puzzles when you open or fold the book This also makes it easy to tear out the pages if you want to Bigger font and better quality paper than newspapers and magazines - easy to read and write on without worry of bleed through Problem levels has been expertly assessed for consistency 6 problems per page and answers at the end of the book Includes a FREE Bonus book Your brain will thank you!
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781710844481
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
The Ultimate Challenge Sudoku Puzzle Book Grab this massive bargain bonanza of classic Sudoku puzzles of varying difficulty levels, expertly crafted and graded. There are plenty of puzzles to enjoy in this jumbo compilation, with 2 different levels of difficulty, which makes it suitable for intermediate and advanced sudoku players in love with this super addictive game: 500 Medium puzzles for intermediate players or as a warm up for experts 500 Hard problems which will give your brain a real challenge This book with hundreds of hours of fun inside makes a great gift! We've had your entertainment and convenience in mind when designing this book and thought about the small details which make a difference: Wide center margins making it easier to work on the puzzles when you open or fold the book This also makes it easy to tear out the pages if you want to Bigger font and better quality paper than newspapers and magazines - easy to read and write on without worry of bleed through Problem levels has been expertly assessed for consistency 6 problems per page and answers at the end of the book Includes a FREE Bonus book Your brain will thank you!
Killer Sudoku Puzzles and Kakuro.
Author: Basford Holmes
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781075367373
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Amusing fitness, warm-up, training and positive energy for the brain. 60 sudoku killer puzzles 8x8 very hard levels. 60 sudoku killer puzzles 9x9 very hard levels. 60 Kakuro puzzles 10x10. 60 Kakuro puzzles 12x12. Killer sudoku may be called or searched with the following phrases or names: sudoku, sum sudoku, killer sudoku books, times killer sudoku, sumdoku, sudoku books, extreme killer sudoku, times killer sudoku books, killer sudoku puzzles, puzzle, the times killer sudoku books, times ultimate killer sudoku books, sudoku 9x9, killer sudoku puzzle books, killer puzzle, sumoku sudoku, sudoku puzzels, sudoku game, sudoku puzzle books, daily killer sudoku, daily sudoku killer, sudoku puzzles, extreme sudoku puzzles, times killer sudoku solutions, super sudoku, daily sudoku, game sudoku, sudoku tips, sudokus, play sudoku, sudoku solver, how to do sudoku, the times ultimate killer sudoku, play killer sudoku, sudoku answers, ultimate killer sudoku, sudoku rules, sudoku challenge, how to solve sudoku, sudoku puzzle solver, su doku, jigsaw sudoku, sudoku solution, sudoku very hard, simple sudoku, sudoku solutions, sumoku puzzles, sudoku puzzles very hard, sudoku addition, sudoku board game, greater than killer sudoku, sudoku grid, times sudoku, sudoku very hard, difficult sudoku, sudoku of the day, sudoku hints, sum sudoku puzzles, sudoku extreme, jigsaw sudoku puzzles, la times sudoku, sudoku x, puzzle killer, krazydad sudoku, sudoku net, sudoku medium, killer sudoku solver, sudoku mania, fiendish sudoku, daily killer sudoku main past puzzles, times puzzles killer, sudoku uk, dkm sudoku, usa today sudoku, play sudoku game, the daily sudoku, sudoku billions, sudoku x wing, lovatts sudoku, sudoku k, sudoku name, how to solve sumoku puzzles, guardian sudoku, guardian killer sudoku, telegraph killer sudoku, sudoku cage, sudoku sudoku, times ultimate killer sudoku, killer sudoku solutions, telegraph sudoku, daily sudoku puzzle, the sudoku killer, zero killer sudoku, sudoku quest, extreme killer sudoku, sum doku, simple sudoku puzzle, krazydad killer sudoku, sudoku puzzle game, sudukus, killer su, play soduko, killer sudoku tips, super sudoku puzzles, sudoku game rules, sudoku ki, extreme sudoku puzzles, sudoku game books, greater than sudoku, mini killer sudoku, sum sudoku solver, the big book of killer su doku, play sudoku puzzles, dailykillersudoku, sumoku puzzle book, daily killer, how to solve killer sudoku, how to play killer sudoku, sudoku sudoku sudoku, how to do killer sudoku, krazydad killer, sodoku knacker, multi sudoku puzzles, easy sudoku games, mega sudoku puzzles, sudoku puzzle maker, difficult sudoku puzzles, killer sudoku brainbashers, best sudoku game, best sudoku puzzles, killersud, killer sudoku cheat sheet, sample sudoku puzzles, sudoku summer, sudoku welt, suduko for beginners, who is the killer puzzle, killer sudoku pro, big sudoku puzzles, different sudoku puzzles, the guardian killer sudoku, sudoku loeser, killer sudoku rules, sudoku tool, krazydad sudoku killer, sodakku, sum sudoku tips, krazydad killer sudoku tough, killer sudoku uk, killer, gratis sudoku, open sudoku puzzles, sudoku number puzzle, brainbashers daily killer sudoku, sudoku game 9x9, sudoku or sudoku, largest sudoku puzzle, guardian killer sudoku today, killer sudoku techniques, killersudoku solver, sudoku games offline, how to killer sudoku, krazydad killer sudoku super tough, soduko solve, sudoku cheat, observer sudoku killer, tips for killer sudoku, grille sudoku killer, sums sudoku, sums number place, samunamupure, kikagaku nampure, sumdoku. Kakuro sudoku may be called or searched with the following phrases or names: kakuro, kakuro puzzles, kakuro solver, kakuro puzzle books, cross sums, kakuro sudoku, kakuro game, daily kakuro, kakuro puzzles with answers, kakuro answers, kakuro for kids, japanese puzzles kakuro, kakuro rules. All answers are at the end of the book. I hope you enjoy the book. Best regards, Basford Holmes
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781075367373
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Amusing fitness, warm-up, training and positive energy for the brain. 60 sudoku killer puzzles 8x8 very hard levels. 60 sudoku killer puzzles 9x9 very hard levels. 60 Kakuro puzzles 10x10. 60 Kakuro puzzles 12x12. Killer sudoku may be called or searched with the following phrases or names: sudoku, sum sudoku, killer sudoku books, times killer sudoku, sumdoku, sudoku books, extreme killer sudoku, times killer sudoku books, killer sudoku puzzles, puzzle, the times killer sudoku books, times ultimate killer sudoku books, sudoku 9x9, killer sudoku puzzle books, killer puzzle, sumoku sudoku, sudoku puzzels, sudoku game, sudoku puzzle books, daily killer sudoku, daily sudoku killer, sudoku puzzles, extreme sudoku puzzles, times killer sudoku solutions, super sudoku, daily sudoku, game sudoku, sudoku tips, sudokus, play sudoku, sudoku solver, how to do sudoku, the times ultimate killer sudoku, play killer sudoku, sudoku answers, ultimate killer sudoku, sudoku rules, sudoku challenge, how to solve sudoku, sudoku puzzle solver, su doku, jigsaw sudoku, sudoku solution, sudoku very hard, simple sudoku, sudoku solutions, sumoku puzzles, sudoku puzzles very hard, sudoku addition, sudoku board game, greater than killer sudoku, sudoku grid, times sudoku, sudoku very hard, difficult sudoku, sudoku of the day, sudoku hints, sum sudoku puzzles, sudoku extreme, jigsaw sudoku puzzles, la times sudoku, sudoku x, puzzle killer, krazydad sudoku, sudoku net, sudoku medium, killer sudoku solver, sudoku mania, fiendish sudoku, daily killer sudoku main past puzzles, times puzzles killer, sudoku uk, dkm sudoku, usa today sudoku, play sudoku game, the daily sudoku, sudoku billions, sudoku x wing, lovatts sudoku, sudoku k, sudoku name, how to solve sumoku puzzles, guardian sudoku, guardian killer sudoku, telegraph killer sudoku, sudoku cage, sudoku sudoku, times ultimate killer sudoku, killer sudoku solutions, telegraph sudoku, daily sudoku puzzle, the sudoku killer, zero killer sudoku, sudoku quest, extreme killer sudoku, sum doku, simple sudoku puzzle, krazydad killer sudoku, sudoku puzzle game, sudukus, killer su, play soduko, killer sudoku tips, super sudoku puzzles, sudoku game rules, sudoku ki, extreme sudoku puzzles, sudoku game books, greater than sudoku, mini killer sudoku, sum sudoku solver, the big book of killer su doku, play sudoku puzzles, dailykillersudoku, sumoku puzzle book, daily killer, how to solve killer sudoku, how to play killer sudoku, sudoku sudoku sudoku, how to do killer sudoku, krazydad killer, sodoku knacker, multi sudoku puzzles, easy sudoku games, mega sudoku puzzles, sudoku puzzle maker, difficult sudoku puzzles, killer sudoku brainbashers, best sudoku game, best sudoku puzzles, killersud, killer sudoku cheat sheet, sample sudoku puzzles, sudoku summer, sudoku welt, suduko for beginners, who is the killer puzzle, killer sudoku pro, big sudoku puzzles, different sudoku puzzles, the guardian killer sudoku, sudoku loeser, killer sudoku rules, sudoku tool, krazydad sudoku killer, sodakku, sum sudoku tips, krazydad killer sudoku tough, killer sudoku uk, killer, gratis sudoku, open sudoku puzzles, sudoku number puzzle, brainbashers daily killer sudoku, sudoku game 9x9, sudoku or sudoku, largest sudoku puzzle, guardian killer sudoku today, killer sudoku techniques, killersudoku solver, sudoku games offline, how to killer sudoku, krazydad killer sudoku super tough, soduko solve, sudoku cheat, observer sudoku killer, tips for killer sudoku, grille sudoku killer, sums sudoku, sums number place, samunamupure, kikagaku nampure, sumdoku. Kakuro sudoku may be called or searched with the following phrases or names: kakuro, kakuro puzzles, kakuro solver, kakuro puzzle books, cross sums, kakuro sudoku, kakuro game, daily kakuro, kakuro puzzles with answers, kakuro answers, kakuro for kids, japanese puzzles kakuro, kakuro rules. All answers are at the end of the book. I hope you enjoy the book. Best regards, Basford Holmes
Expert Sudoku
Author: Nikoli Publishing
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780761158356
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Expert Sudoku is an all-new collection of handcrafted puzzles for the expert puzzle-solver. This is the book that challenges skilled solvers and Sudoku-lovers at the top level—every one of the 320 puzzles is rated "difficult." Good luck!
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780761158356
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Expert Sudoku is an all-new collection of handcrafted puzzles for the expert puzzle-solver. This is the book that challenges skilled solvers and Sudoku-lovers at the top level—every one of the 320 puzzles is rated "difficult." Good luck!
How to Solve Sudoku Puzzles
Author: Arnold Snyder
Publisher: Cardoza Publishing
ISBN: 1580426182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Master gamesmith, Arnold Snyder, presents a step-by-step approach to attacking Sudoku with simple tips and tricks to help readers solve the puzzles faster! Easy-to-follow move-by-move solution examples help readers identify the key patterns essential to success. Snyder goes beyond the superficial solution approach of other Sudoku titles, showing players never-before-published solutions to conquer the puzzles— using the same approach that has made him a best-seller in the field of gaming. Includes 100 free puzzles from easy to challenging to very dificult so readers can practice their newly learned skills. table { }tr { }col { }br { }td { padding: 0px; color: windowtext; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; white-space: nowrap; }.xl66 { font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }
Publisher: Cardoza Publishing
ISBN: 1580426182
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Master gamesmith, Arnold Snyder, presents a step-by-step approach to attacking Sudoku with simple tips and tricks to help readers solve the puzzles faster! Easy-to-follow move-by-move solution examples help readers identify the key patterns essential to success. Snyder goes beyond the superficial solution approach of other Sudoku titles, showing players never-before-published solutions to conquer the puzzles— using the same approach that has made him a best-seller in the field of gaming. Includes 100 free puzzles from easy to challenging to very dificult so readers can practice their newly learned skills. table { }tr { }col { }br { }td { padding: 0px; color: windowtext; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; vertical-align: bottom; border: medium none; white-space: nowrap; }.xl66 { font-family: "Franklin Gothic Book", sans-serif; border: 0.5pt solid windowtext; }
Optimization Algorithms
Author: Alaa Khamis
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1638355630
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Solve design, planning, and control problems using modern AI techniques. Optimization problems are everywhere in daily life. What’s the fastest route from one place to another? How do you calculate the optimal price for a product? How should you plant crops, allocate resources, and schedule surgeries? Optimization Algorithms introduces the AI algorithms that can solve these complex and poorly-structured problems. In Optimization Algorithms: AI techniques for design, planning, and control problems you will learn: • The core concepts of search and optimization • Deterministic and stochastic optimization techniques • Graph search algorithms • Trajectory-based optimization algorithms • Evolutionary computing algorithms • Swarm intelligence algorithms • Machine learning methods for search and optimization problems • Efficient trade-offs between search space exploration and exploitation • State-of-the-art Python libraries for search and optimization Inside this comprehensive guide, you’ll find a wide range of optimization methods, from deterministic search algorithms to stochastic derivative-free metaheuristic algorithms and machine learning methods. Don’t worry—there’s no complex mathematical notation. You’ll learn through in-depth case studies that cut through academic complexity to demonstrate how each algorithm works in the real world. Plus, get hands-on experience with practical exercises to optimize and scale the performance of each algorithm. About the technology Every time you call for a rideshare, order food delivery, book a flight, or schedule a hospital appointment, an algorithm works behind the scenes to find the optimal result. Blending modern AI methods with classical search and optimization techniques can deliver incredible results, especially for the messy problems you encounter in the real world. This book shows you how. About the book Optimization Algorithms explains in clear language how optimization algorithms work and what you can do with them. This engaging book goes beyond toy examples, presenting detailed scenarios that use actual industry data and cutting-edge AI techniques. You will learn how to apply modern optimization algorithms to real-world problems like pricing products, matching supply with demand, balancing assembly lines, tuning parameters, coordinating mobile networks, and cracking smart mobility challenges. What's inside • Graph search algorithms • Metaheuristic algorithms • Machine learning methods • State-of-the-art Python libraries for optimization • Efficient trade-offs between search space exploration and exploitation About the reader Requires intermediate Python and machine learning skills. About the author Dr. Alaa Khamis is an AI and smart mobility technical leader at General Motors and a lecturer at the University of Toronto. The technical editor on this book was Frances Buontempo. Table of Contents PART 1 1 Introduction to search and optimization 2 A deeper look at search and optimization 3 Blind search algorithms 4 Informed search algorithms PART 2 5 Simulated annealing 6 Tabu search PART 3 7 Genetic algorithms 8 Genetic algorithm variants PART 4 9 Particle swarm optimization 10 Other swarm intelligence algorithms to explore PART 5 11 Supervised and unsupervised learning 12 Reinforcement learning Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1638355630
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 1118
Book Description
Solve design, planning, and control problems using modern AI techniques. Optimization problems are everywhere in daily life. What’s the fastest route from one place to another? How do you calculate the optimal price for a product? How should you plant crops, allocate resources, and schedule surgeries? Optimization Algorithms introduces the AI algorithms that can solve these complex and poorly-structured problems. In Optimization Algorithms: AI techniques for design, planning, and control problems you will learn: • The core concepts of search and optimization • Deterministic and stochastic optimization techniques • Graph search algorithms • Trajectory-based optimization algorithms • Evolutionary computing algorithms • Swarm intelligence algorithms • Machine learning methods for search and optimization problems • Efficient trade-offs between search space exploration and exploitation • State-of-the-art Python libraries for search and optimization Inside this comprehensive guide, you’ll find a wide range of optimization methods, from deterministic search algorithms to stochastic derivative-free metaheuristic algorithms and machine learning methods. Don’t worry—there’s no complex mathematical notation. You’ll learn through in-depth case studies that cut through academic complexity to demonstrate how each algorithm works in the real world. Plus, get hands-on experience with practical exercises to optimize and scale the performance of each algorithm. About the technology Every time you call for a rideshare, order food delivery, book a flight, or schedule a hospital appointment, an algorithm works behind the scenes to find the optimal result. Blending modern AI methods with classical search and optimization techniques can deliver incredible results, especially for the messy problems you encounter in the real world. This book shows you how. About the book Optimization Algorithms explains in clear language how optimization algorithms work and what you can do with them. This engaging book goes beyond toy examples, presenting detailed scenarios that use actual industry data and cutting-edge AI techniques. You will learn how to apply modern optimization algorithms to real-world problems like pricing products, matching supply with demand, balancing assembly lines, tuning parameters, coordinating mobile networks, and cracking smart mobility challenges. What's inside • Graph search algorithms • Metaheuristic algorithms • Machine learning methods • State-of-the-art Python libraries for optimization • Efficient trade-offs between search space exploration and exploitation About the reader Requires intermediate Python and machine learning skills. About the author Dr. Alaa Khamis is an AI and smart mobility technical leader at General Motors and a lecturer at the University of Toronto. The technical editor on this book was Frances Buontempo. Table of Contents PART 1 1 Introduction to search and optimization 2 A deeper look at search and optimization 3 Blind search algorithms 4 Informed search algorithms PART 2 5 Simulated annealing 6 Tabu search PART 3 7 Genetic algorithms 8 Genetic algorithm variants PART 4 9 Particle swarm optimization 10 Other swarm intelligence algorithms to explore PART 5 11 Supervised and unsupervised learning 12 Reinforcement learning Appendix A Appendix B Appendix C
Programming for the Puzzled
Author: Srini Devadas
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262343193
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Learning programming with one of “the coolest applications around”: algorithmic puzzles ranging from scheduling selfie time to verifying the six degrees of separation hypothesis. This book builds a bridge between the recreational world of algorithmic puzzles (puzzles that can be solved by algorithms) and the pragmatic world of computer programming, teaching readers to program while solving puzzles. Few introductory students want to program for programming's sake. Puzzles are real-world applications that are attention grabbing, intriguing, and easy to describe. Each lesson starts with the description of a puzzle. After a failed attempt or two at solving the puzzle, the reader arrives at an Aha! moment—a search strategy, data structure, or mathematical fact—and the solution presents itself. The solution to the puzzle becomes the specification of the code to be written. Readers will thus know what the code is supposed to do before seeing the code itself. This represents a pedagogical philosophy that decouples understanding the functionality of the code from understanding programming language syntax and semantics. Python syntax and semantics required to understand the code are explained as needed for each puzzle. Readers need only the rudimentary grasp of programming concepts that can be obtained from introductory or AP computer science classes in high school. The book includes more than twenty puzzles and more than seventy programming exercises that vary in difficulty. Many of the puzzles are well known and have appeared in publications and on websites in many variations. They range from scheduling selfie time with celebrities to solving Sudoku problems in seconds to verifying the six degrees of separation hypothesis. The code for selected puzzle solutions is downloadable from the book's website; the code for all puzzle solutions is available to instructors.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262343193
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Learning programming with one of “the coolest applications around”: algorithmic puzzles ranging from scheduling selfie time to verifying the six degrees of separation hypothesis. This book builds a bridge between the recreational world of algorithmic puzzles (puzzles that can be solved by algorithms) and the pragmatic world of computer programming, teaching readers to program while solving puzzles. Few introductory students want to program for programming's sake. Puzzles are real-world applications that are attention grabbing, intriguing, and easy to describe. Each lesson starts with the description of a puzzle. After a failed attempt or two at solving the puzzle, the reader arrives at an Aha! moment—a search strategy, data structure, or mathematical fact—and the solution presents itself. The solution to the puzzle becomes the specification of the code to be written. Readers will thus know what the code is supposed to do before seeing the code itself. This represents a pedagogical philosophy that decouples understanding the functionality of the code from understanding programming language syntax and semantics. Python syntax and semantics required to understand the code are explained as needed for each puzzle. Readers need only the rudimentary grasp of programming concepts that can be obtained from introductory or AP computer science classes in high school. The book includes more than twenty puzzles and more than seventy programming exercises that vary in difficulty. Many of the puzzles are well known and have appeared in publications and on websites in many variations. They range from scheduling selfie time with celebrities to solving Sudoku problems in seconds to verifying the six degrees of separation hypothesis. The code for selected puzzle solutions is downloadable from the book's website; the code for all puzzle solutions is available to instructors.
Advances in Swarm Intelligence, Part II
Author: Ying Tan
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642215238
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
The two-volume set (LNCS 6728 and 6729) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2011, held in Chongqing, China, in June 2011. The 143 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 298 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theoretical analysis of swarm intelligence algorithms, particle swarm optimization, applications of pso algorithms, ant colony optimization algorithms, bee colony algorithms, novel swarm-based optimization algorithms, artificial immune system, differential evolution, neural networks, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, fuzzy methods, and hybrid algorithms - for part I. Topics addressed in part II are such as multi-objective optimization algorithms, multi-robot, swarm-robot, and multi-agent systems, data mining methods, machine learning methods, feature selection algorithms, pattern recognition methods, intelligent control, other optimization algorithms and applications, data fusion and swarm intelligence, as well as fish school search - foundations and applications.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3642215238
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
The two-volume set (LNCS 6728 and 6729) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ICSI 2011, held in Chongqing, China, in June 2011. The 143 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 298 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on theoretical analysis of swarm intelligence algorithms, particle swarm optimization, applications of pso algorithms, ant colony optimization algorithms, bee colony algorithms, novel swarm-based optimization algorithms, artificial immune system, differential evolution, neural networks, genetic algorithms, evolutionary computation, fuzzy methods, and hybrid algorithms - for part I. Topics addressed in part II are such as multi-objective optimization algorithms, multi-robot, swarm-robot, and multi-agent systems, data mining methods, machine learning methods, feature selection algorithms, pattern recognition methods, intelligent control, other optimization algorithms and applications, data fusion and swarm intelligence, as well as fish school search - foundations and applications.