Sudoku Seminar
- 10:00 Meet and greet with snacks and coffee (10 minutes) (Introduction)
- 10:10 Open session (Dr. Botting facilitates, 30 minutes)
- 10:40 Sudoku by Computer, Part 1 (Dr. Botting, 30 minutes) [ sudoku.rjb.html ]
- 11:10 Sudoku by Computer, Part 2 (Dr. Voigt, 30 minutes) [ seminar.html ]
- 11:40 Wrap up (10 minutes)
- 11:50 End of meeting, 10 minutes to get to next meeting.
- (Dr. Georgiou EMACS scripts): [ sudoku.emacs2.txt ] (play game) and [ sudoku.emacs1.txt ] (solve it)
- a distraction,
- entertainment,
- addiction
- international phenomenon like:
- Logic Puzzles
- Mine Sweeper
- Rubrik's Cube
- Instant Insanity
- The 12 Coins Problem
- Discrete mathematics -- graph coloring
- Statistics -- degrees of freedom
- Programming Languages -- Prolog
- Data Structures
- Analysis of Algorithms
- Formal Methods
- Artificial Intelligence
- More?
- Nine rows. Nine columns. Nine digits. Nine 3><3 regions.
- (Row0): Each row contains each digit once and once only.
- (Col0): Each column contains each digit once and once only.
- (Box0): Each region contains each digit once and once only.
Plan For Seminar
(Date and Place): Oct 28th 10-12 Jack Brown Hall CSUSB
Introduction
Sudoku puzzle
Use in Class
It provides a nice example that teachers can use in class.Description
Net
(End of Net)
Here is a link to other 9><9 puzzles [ http://www.websudoku.com/ ] on a popular "Web Sudoku" site.
The
(Wikipedia sudoku entry):
[ Sudoku ]
provides a excellent description of the puzzle
complete with solution strategies.
Next
[ sudoku.rjb.html ]