programming puzzles?

[John Salerno]

mensanator at aol.com wrote:

> Personally, I am an avid reader of rec.puzzles. Not because
> I like doing stupid puzzles per se, but I look at them from the
> viewpoint "how would I write a program to solve this?"
> Even simple word problems sometimes involves more trouble than
> the puzzle is worth, but it teaches you how to write algorithms to
> generate permutations, combinations, partitions, etc. 

Sounds like what I'm interested in. I'll check it out!