Freecell Solver - Documentation

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Note to Freecell Solver’s Users

Shlomi Fish - the core developer of Freecell Solver, and the webmaster of this website - has been experiencing reliability problems with incoming and outgoing E-mail (such as legitimate messages being dropped or classified as spam). They also affect his GMail-dot-com account.

Therefore, one should preferably contact him using other electronic means.

Distributed Documents

HTML	Plaintext	Description
README	Plaintext	The "README" File
INSTALL	Plaintext	How to install Freecell Solver
NEWS	Plaintext	The file containing what's new in every release.
USAGE	Plaintext	A detailed usage document
TODO	Plaintext	The to-do list
AUTHORS	Plaintext	List of authors and contributors
COPYING	Plaintext	The licensing/copyright terms file of Freecell Solver
CONTRIBUTING	Plaintext	Some guidelines for how to contribute. Note this regarding the "HACKING" in the filename.

Documents of the Code

Architecture Document

The Freecell Solver Architecture Document. Contains coding conventions, overview of the code and the modules, some terminology and some techniques that one is bound to encounter when dealing with the code.

Doxygen Browsing

Michael Mann has ported Freecell Solver to C++ and used Doxygen to prepare a hypertext reference to the code. This is compatible with version 2.2.x of Freecell Solver.

Lecture: Freecell Solver - Evolution of a C Program

A lecture given to the Haifa Linux Club about Freecell Solver. Covers various highlights from the history of the code-base and the community.

Lecture: Freecell Solver - The Next Presentation

A second installment in the series of presentations about Freecell Solver.

Freecell Solver - Project Introduction

This is a small presentation that introduces the Freecell Solver project to people who may be interested in contributing to it.

The Well and the Wall

Some reflections on the evolution of Freecell Solver and my interaction with its users and contributors written after reading Eric Raymond's seminal "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" document. What I did very much the same, (mostly without thinking too much about it), what I did differently, and what happened. Slightly out-of-date.

Freecell Solver - Evolution of a C Program - The Book

A book I planned to write and publish online about the evolution of the code and to a lesser extent my interaction with its users, contributors and co-developers. A copy of the latest draft is available for a free download.

This book will focus about various C and game AI techniques and the semantics of using them. It should be a good discussion of interesting algorithms and data structures, and how to optimize C code and program code in general. It will require no or little knowledge of Freecell games AI or algorithms and data structures, but good knowledge of C will be expected.

But like I said, it's still vapourware. ;-)