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A great book about maze generation is "Mazes for programmers" http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/ http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/

by agbell 8y ago

crdrost 8y ago
Seconded. While this book has a lot of nice encouragements to simply coding and enjoying mazes, it also ships with two absolutely kick-ass appendices. The first is a very short bite-size summary of all of the algorithms that the book has covered, so that you don't have to read through the entire book again to remember the differences between the different algorithms. This is so good I wonder why it is not a standard feature of textbooks in general, such that it has its own standard section name (say "Abridgement"). The key is that it's longer-form than an introduction or abstract or conclusion, but the freedom to occupy its own space allows it to be expressed in human terms, unlike the "real research" parts which have to be a bit more rigorous. The second is a quantitative comparison of the different algorithms among different measurements, which again is like "why isn't this an appendix everywhere?" and such. It's still not trying to be absolutely rigorous but just to give a rough feel for the different options there. As a result you can just grab the textbook as a reference, flip through those appendices, say "yeah that's what I'm looking for, longer twistier paths," read up a quick description of how that algorithm works, say "well that's a bit more involved than this other one which looks good enough, maybe I'll start from there."
neves 8y ago
wow, US$32 for the kindle edition. It looks nice, but a bit too much for a toy book.
- sanj 8y ago
  It is the most enjoyable prgramming book I’ve read in a decade. Well worth it.
- AlexeyBrin 8y ago
  You can buy the ebook directly from the publisher for $25 https://pragprog.com/book/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers https://pragprog.com/book/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers . You get pdf and epub formats and no DRM.

A great book about maze generation is "Mazes for programmers" http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/ http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/

by agbell 8y ago

A great book about maze generation is "Mazes for programmers" http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/ http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/

crdrost 8y ago

Seconded. While this book has a lot of nice encouragements to simply coding and enjoying mazes, it also ships with two absolutely kick-ass appendices. The first is a very short bite-size summary of all of the algorithms that the book has covered, so that you don't have to read through the entire book again to remember the differences between the different algorithms. This is so good I wonder why it is not a standard feature of textbooks in general, such that it has its own standard section name (say "Abridgement"). The key is that it's longer-form than an introduction or abstract or conclusion, but the freedom to occupy its own space allows it to be expressed in human terms, unlike the "real research" parts which have to be a bit more rigorous. The second is a quantitative comparison of the different algorithms among different measurements, which again is like "why isn't this an appendix everywhere?" and such. It's still not trying to be absolutely rigorous but just to give a rough feel for the different options there. As a result you can just grab the textbook as a reference, flip through those appendices, say "yeah that's what I'm looking for, longer twistier paths," read up a quick description of how that algorithm works, say "well that's a bit more involved than this other one which looks good enough, maybe I'll start from there."

neves 8y ago

wow, US$32 for the kindle edition. It looks nice, but a bit too much for a toy book.

sanj 8y ago
It is the most enjoyable prgramming book I’ve read in a decade. Well worth it.
AlexeyBrin 8y ago
You can buy the ebook directly from the publisher for $25 https://pragprog.com/book/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers https://pragprog.com/book/jbmaze/mazes-for-programmers . You get pdf and epub formats and no DRM.