{"id":247,"date":"2008-02-08T13:38:13","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T18:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/02\/08\/sudoku-solver\/"},"modified":"2019-10-21T09:52:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T14:52:10","slug":"sudoku-solver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/02\/08\/sudoku-solver\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudoku solver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the comments that came from the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/pick\/2008\/01\/24\/four-years-of-picks-and-reader-survey-results\/\">survey<\/a> we did a few weeks ago is that people miss the traditional Pick of the Week format. I have invited a few guest bloggers to help me choose files each week. This week Robert Bemis will be making a fine choice:<\/p>\n<p>Also, Congratulations go to Jason Brown for winning the MATLAB t-shirt for participating in the survey that appears after most movies I put out there each week. Win your shirt by answering this month&#8217;s survey.<\/p>\n<p>Now on to our guest blogger:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s been a while since our last Sudoku \u201cPick of the Week,\u201d and there are plenty to choose from. So this week\u2019s pick is <a title=\"https:\/\/www.mathworks.com\/matlabcentral\/fileexchange\/loadFile.do?objectId=14073 (link no longer works)\">Sudoku (Dancing Links Solver)<\/a>. Per-Anders Ekstrom did a first-rate job with this GUI. The screen shot doesn\u2019t do it justice. My favorite features not described on the submission page are the solver options to show candidates and\/or mistakes, and the solver option to block invalid moves. These options were so fun I wished there were hot keys to toggle them without going through the Solver menu. (Hint: edit lines 110-112; add Accelerator property.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the comments that came from the survey we did a few weeks ago is that people miss the traditional Pick of the Week format. I have invited a few guest bloggers to help me choose files each&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/2008\/02\/08\/sudoku-solver\/\">read more >><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4428,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/4428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.mathworks.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}