From: Tom Copeland <tom@...>
Date: 2005-05-12T06:15:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Representing Undirected Edges (advice, please)

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 01:32 +0900, Steven Jenkins wrote:
> Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> > If you can do that in an elegant way, that would be really awesome. It
> > would also make solving searching problems like we've seen in these Ruby
> > Quizzes really easy (which is good.) Because those kind of search problems
> > come up a lot in computer science, and _not_ having to roll your own
> > search algorithm every time would be nice.
> 
> I've been thinking for some time that a cool group project would be to 
> work through a classic text on algorithms (e.g., Sedgewick) and develop 
> a Ruby library for everything in it.
> 
> I don't have time for anything new right now, but I still think it'd be 
> cool.

Yup, that would be cool.  That's similar to what I did with Tim Jones'
"AI Application Programming" book here:

http://ai-app-prog.rubyforge.org/

Although I kind of ran out of gas and never did finish up the last few
chapters... and I was just learning Ruby, so the code is hurting... but
anyhow!

Yours,

Tom