Software
Recommended Constraint Programming System
| The course uses Gecode Links to an external site. as system for your practical tasks. The main reason for this recommendation is that it features some nice tools for constraint programming. And it is free, efficient, and well documented! |
Installing Gecode
To install Gecode, please download it from the Gecode download page. Information about how to install Gecode can be found in Chapter 2 of Modeling and Programming with Gecode.
Please make sure to download version 6.1.0 or better!
Getting Started
You need to check out how to model in Gecode. At the beginning of Part M you find some reading advice which you should follow (the chapters on set and float variables are not needed).