Puzzles for Programmers and Pros

by Dennis E. Shasha

Aimed at both working programmers who are applying for a job where puzzles are an integral part of the interview, as well as techies who just love a good puzzle, this book offers a cache of exciting puzzles Features a new series of puzzles, never before published, called elimination puzzles that have a pedagogical aim of helping the reader solve an entire class of Sudoku-like puzzles Provides the tools to solve the puzzles by hand and computer The first part of each chapter presents a puzzle; the second part shows readers how to solve several classes of puzzles algorithmically; the third part asks the reader to solve a mystery involving codes, puzzles, and geography Comes with a unique bonus: if readers actually solve the mystery, they have a chance to win a prize, which will be promoted on wrox.com!

Genres: Programming, Puzzles, Technical, Reference, Computer Science

240 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[Ami Iida · Rating 5 out of 5]

the best and difficult puzzles (for programming )