Author : Arto Inkala
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 37,47 MB
Release : 2007-06-01
Category : Games
ISBN : 9781847534514
This book contains AI Escargot, the world famous sudoku puzzle which became the most difficult sudoku puzzle known in 2006. There are also several hints for solving AI Escargot in the shortest and most logical way. In addition, the book has 166 other sudoku puzzles in 11 categories. This makes it very convenient to find out your own level and to learn more! The author, Arto Inkala, is a puzzle creator and a doctor of science in the field of applied mathematics.
Author : Denis Berthier
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 25,39 MB
Release : 2015-07-11
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781326350642
""Pattern-Based Constraint Satisfaction and Logic Puzzles (Second Edition)"" develops a pure logic, pattern-based perspective of solving the finite Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP), with emphasis on finding the ""simplest"" solution. Different ways of reasoning with the constraints are formalised by various families of ""resolution rules,"" each of them carrying its own notion of simplicity. A large part of the book illustrates the power of the approach by applying it to various popular logic puzzles. It provides a unified view of how to model and solve them, even though they involve very different types of constraints: obvious symmetric ones in Sudoku, non-symmetric but transitive ones in Futoshiki, topological and geometric ones in Map colouring, Numbrix and Hidato, non-binary arithmetic ones in Kakuro and both non-binary and non-local ones in Slitherlink. It also shows that the most familiar techniques for these puzzles can be understood as mere application-specific presentations of the general rules.
Author : Eiichiro Oda,Masashi Kishimoto,Yuto Tsukuda,Tite Kubo,Ryosuke Takeuchi
Publisher : VIZ Media LLC
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 34,12 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1421585308
Catch the biggest manga titles from the pages of the world famous Shonen Jump Magazine. Enjoy some of manga's most classic titles including Naruto, Bleach and One Piece. These three titles are staples for any manga reader and will introduce you two three amazing stories fresh from Japan's biggest creators. Follow that up with some dramatic culinary comedy and toss in a bit of post apocalyptic anarchy and you will have begun your manga lesson. Enjoy these five free titles. -- VIZ Media
Author : Paul Stephens
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 50,73 MB
Release : 2007-02
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781844834051
Sudoku has become an addiction for millions--and that’s great, because mind games help keep our brains in good working order. But even though the rules are simple, many solvers need some help when cracking the more complicated grids. That support is here in abundance...enough to take to you into the realm of the Very Difficult and even the Fiendish. Using this attractive guide, solvers will smoothly progress through 52 stages, each with a self-testing and timed puzzle to monitor progress. Chock-full of tactics and tips, and drawing on strategies evolved by Sudoku experts from Japan, Europe, and the United States, this little book takes you to the top.
Author : Al Sweigart
Publisher : No Starch Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1718501242
Best-selling author Al Sweigart shows you how to easily build over 80 fun programs with minimal code and maximum creativity. If you’ve mastered basic Python syntax and you’re ready to start writing programs, you’ll find The Big Book of Small Python Projects both enlightening and fun. This collection of 81 Python projects will have you making digital art, games, animations, counting pro- grams, and more right away. Once you see how the code works, you’ll practice re-creating the programs and experiment by adding your own custom touches. These simple, text-based programs are 256 lines of code or less. And whether it’s a vintage screensaver, a snail-racing game, a clickbait headline generator, or animated strands of DNA, each project is designed to be self-contained so you can easily share it online. You’ll create: • Hangman, Blackjack, and other games to play against your friends or the computer • Simulations of a forest fire, a million dice rolls, and a Japanese abacus • Animations like a virtual fish tank, a rotating cube, and a bouncing DVD logo screensaver • A first-person 3D maze game • Encryption programs that use ciphers like ROT13 and Vigenère to conceal text If you’re tired of standard step-by-step tutorials, you’ll love the learn-by-doing approach of The Big Book of Small Python Projects. It’s proof that good things come in small programs!
Author : Ed Burnette
Publisher : Pragmatic Bookshelf
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2015-05-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1680503642
Google Android dominates the mobile market, and by targeting Android, your apps can run on most of the phones and tablets in the world. This new fourth edition of the #1 book for learning Android covers all modern Android versions from Android 4.1 through Android 5.0. Freshly added material covers new Android features such as Fragments and Google Play Services. Android is a platform you can't afford not to learn, and this book gets you started. Android is a software toolkit for mobile phones and tablets, created by Google. It's inside more than a billion devices, making Android the number one platform for application developers. Your own app could be running on all those devices! Getting started developing with Android is easy. You don't even need access to an Android phone, just a computer where you can install the Android SDK and the emulator that comes with it. Within minutes, Hello, Android gets you creating your first working application: Android's version of "Hello, World." From there, you'll build up a more substantial example: an Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe game. By gradually adding features to the game, you'll learn about many aspects of Android programming, such as creating animated user interfaces, playing music and sound effects, building location-based services (including GPS and cell-tower triangulation), and accessing web services. You'll also learn how to publish your applications to the Google Play Store. This fourth edition of the bestselling Android classic has been revised for Android 4.1-4.3 (Jelly Bean), 4.4 (KitKat), and Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Topics have been streamlined and simplified based on reader feedback, and every page and example has been reviewed and updated for compatibility with the latest versions of Android. If you'd rather be coding than reading about coding, this book is for you.
Author : Frank Longo
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 39,38 MB
Release : 2006-08
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781402740190
The sudoku craze keeps growing, with no end in sight--and as its popularity builds, fans keep an eagle eye out for fresh formats featuring their favorite puzzles. Here’s one sure to draw them in: sudokus that add a little spice to the mix by changing the standard 9 x 9 puzzles to 10 x 10. That means solvers get 100 squares to fill in instead of just 81! And the numbers go from zero to nine, rather than one to nine. Plus, the smaller sections within each grid are no longer 3 x 3: half the puzzles feature rectangular 5 x 2 boxes and the rest come in various random shapes, with heavy lines marking out the separate areas. It may seem daunting at first--but it’s fun!
Author : Gareth Moore
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 36,36 MB
Release : 2012-08-30
Category : Games
ISBN : 9781479221943
Featuring a huge number of Killer Sudoku Zero puzzles, all carefully sorted into order of increasing difficulty, this unique collection of 200 puzzles is full of attractively-designed challenges from best-selling puzzle author Gareth Moore, author of many international books. Killer Sudoku Zero puzzles are similar to Killer Sudoku except that all unnecessary cages are removed. The cages that remain give the sum of the values in the squares which they cover. Printed on large, top-quality paper ideal for solving on, the 200 Killer Sudoku Zero puzzles vary in difficulty from easy to hard so whatever your preference or experience you'll always find a puzzle here to suit you. Search '200 Puzzles Moore' on Amazon for lots more titles in this series, including regular Killer Sudoku.
Author : Denis Berthier
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,25 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781847534729
The "Hidden Logic of Sudoku" provides the first systematic perspective of the logical symmetries of the popular game. These are fully exploited to define new graphical representations, new kinds of resolution rules and a precedence ordering of the rules consistent with their logical complexity. The set of rules defined in the book is illustrated with a hundred of puzzles together with their full resolution paths. It suffices to solve almost any puzzle without making guesses or assuming the uniqueness of a solution. It has been fed into an Artificial Intelligence (AI) engine and a large database of puzzles has been processed, leading to a precise evaluation of the efficiency of each rule. The book is intended for both advanced Sudoku players (who will discover many new facets of the game and a new, systematic approach to the resolution rules) and for teachers or students of Logic or AI (who will appreciate the strict logical foundations).
Author : Aske Plaat
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3030592383
In this textbook the author takes as inspiration recent breakthroughs in game playing to explain how and why deep reinforcement learning works. In particular he shows why two-person games of tactics and strategy fascinate scientists, programmers, and game enthusiasts and unite them in a common goal: to create artificial intelligence (AI). After an introduction to the core concepts, environment, and communities of intelligence and games, the book is organized into chapters on reinforcement learning, heuristic planning, adaptive sampling, function approximation, and self-play. The author takes a hands-on approach throughout, with Python code examples and exercises that help the reader understand how AI learns to play. He also supports the main text with detailed pointers to online machine learning frameworks, technical details for AlphaGo, notes on how to play and program Go and chess, and a comprehensive bibliography. The content is class-tested and suitable for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on artificial intelligence and games. It's also appropriate for self-study by professionals engaged with applications of machine learning and with games development. Finally it's valuable for any reader engaged with the philosophical implications of artificial and general intelligence, games represent a modern Turing test of the power and limitations of AI.
