CP Resources

• Our ASTRA research group on constraint programming has a comprehensive list of archives & libraries, associations, books, conferences & workshops, courses & tutorials, journals, solvers & languages / libraries, etc on constraint programming.

• See Solver & Hardware for the solver resources of this course.

We highly recommend you learn or use for typesetting your homework reports in a professional way, but this is optional. The learning of LaTeX is beyond your time budget for this course, but very well-invested as you will find out during the course or later. Here are some LaTeX resources:

• LaTeX

• The (Not So) Short Introduction to LaTeX2e

• The LaTeX wikibook: a gentle but thorough introduction

• Don't know the LaTeX code for that mathematical symbol you need? Draw it by hand at detexify, and the applet will find the code for you.

• Recommended text editors: Emacs, Aquamacs; we strongly recommend not to use editors WYSIWYG editors for LaTeX like LyX

• CP demo homework report (source code in the demoReport folder), which also contains examples of all LaTeX commands you need for this course; from the command line (or with Emacs/Aquamacs), compile with pdflatex (once or twice, depending on whether cross-references need to be recomputed), and run bibtex whenever the bibliography was modified