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Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people 1st Edition by Aditya Bhargava PDF
Author: Aditya Bhargava
Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.
About the Technology
An algorithm is nothing more than a step-by-step procedure for solving a problem. The algorithms you’ll use most often as a programmer have already been discovered, tested, and proven. If you want to understand them but refuse to slog through dense multipage proofs, this is the book for you. This fully illustrated and engaging guide makes it easy to learn how to use the most important algorithms effectively in your own programs.
About the Book
Grokking Algorithms is a friendly take on this core computer science topic. In it, you’ll learn how to apply common algorithms to the practical programming problems you face every day. You’ll start with tasks like sorting and searching. As you build up your skills, you’ll tackle more complex problems like data compression and artificial intelligence. Each carefully presented example includes helpful diagrams and fully annotated code samples in Python. By the end of this book, you will have mastered widely applicable algorithms as well as how and when to use them.
What’s Inside
Covers search, sort, and graph algorithms
Over 400 pictures with detailed walkthroughs
Performance trade-offs between algorithms
Python-based code samples
About the Reader
This easy-to-read, picture-heavy introduction is suitable for self-taught programmers, engineers, or anyone who wants to brush up on algorithms.
About the Author
Aditya Bhargava is a Software Engineer with a dual background in Computer Science and Fine Arts. He blogs on programming at adit.io.
Table of Contents
Introduction to algorithms
Selection sort
Recursion
Quicksort
Hash tables
Breadth-first search
Dijkstra’s algorithm
Greedy algorithms
Dynamic programming
K-nearest neighbors
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