The Zen of Lotto

The Zen of Lotto and its associated materials were written by an avid hobbyist for use by other avid hobbyists.

The included tools and instructions show you how to quickly evaluate your latest greatest idea for selecting winning lotto combinations.

You get over a dozen demo applications. You get the project files for those dozen demos. In addition, 3 project files are provided that implement two of the demos in other programming languages or environments.

In all there are 60 unique code samples with 12,000 lines about a megabyte in volume. All this code has been extensively exercised and its output evaluated. It builds error free (of course!) and almost warning free, except for some warnings about deprecated functions in VC++. Chapter 1 has information related to these deprecated functions.

Access to all demos, project files and sample code is easy and is provided at no charge. It's included in the eBook purchase price. Very little, if any, typing will be required to use the sample code and project files.

I'm estimating the eBook to represent around 1,000 pages of text. About half is sample code listing, and the other half is supporting discussion.

If you're bright enough to crank up your programming environment and access (or create) a project file, you can most likely benefit from using the materials in this eBook.

If you're a seasoned "salty-dog" programmer, you can benefit too.

Over a dozen GUI-based demo apps are available with full documentation. You can see what the app does and you can see the code that does it. Early on, all code is documented on a line-by-line basis. Also, early on, the discussion of the math is largely interspersed with discussion of the code that does the math.

Speaking of math . . . There is just a smattering of material in the eBook about logarithms. There's a bit more material related to Fibonacci. Sad to say, no Fourier. I must confess, Fourier eludes me, try as I might. Interest of the prospective mathematically inclined reader may be piqued by this. Also, interest of any prospective readers wishing to further their math skills may be piqued a bit.

So what you're looking for is most likely in there. You may have to wade through some stuff you're not interested in at the moment, but how can THAT be avoided with adequate coverage?

I'll tout my treatment of profiles as an example. If you're seasoned in coding and reading profiles, you can skip the entire related chapter. But if profiles are a mystery to you, I think the discussion I offer on that topic is "to die for". You'll see.

Why not download the free sample of the eBook now? You get access to two of the demos. The links are right there in the foreword. Check out the outline of the Table of Contents. Yes! The Table of Contents is sufficiently large that I made an outline for it!

All text headings, illustrations, and code samples listed in the Table of Contents are hyperlinked in both directions. Try it in the free sample. This makes for convenient navigation of the eBook. Hints for navigation in this eBook are covered in chapter 1.

If you have some programming skills and an interest in random number predictions, The Zen of Lotto is for you.