Example of using backtracking to solve a sudoku puzzle. When deciding if a given value is valid given the context, tables (maintained by the SBoard object) are used to look up occurences. This is also ...

Kotlin greatly reduces source code verbosity; with the recently announced first class support from the Android team, a great opportunity has been created. The book will help you learn how to create ...

Functions are fundamental to code organization; they exist in all higher order programming languages. Generally, functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and ...

Five new Elektor courses help beginners take their first steps in microcontroller programming with Arduino, ESP32, and Raspberry Pi Pico. Each course combines hands-on projects, hardware kits, and ...

In the ideal world, software developers would analyze each problem in the language of its domain and then articulate solutions in matching terms. They could thus easily communicate with domain experts ...

We study the problem of efficiently predicting a correct program from a large set of programs induced from few input-output examples in Programming-by-Example (PBE) systems. This is an important ...

Learning programs is a timely and interesting challenge. In Programming by Example (PBE), a system attempts to infer a program from input and output examples alone, by searching for a composition of ...

Literacy in any language, native or otherwise, has been one of the defining factors for gauging ability throughout the ages. But in our modern world, literacy of another kind is becoming ever more ...