Grokking Algorithms: An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people
Aditya Bhargava
May 2016 · Sold by Simon and Schuster
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"This book does the impossible: it makes math fun and easy!" - Sander Rossel, COAS Software Systems
Grokking Algorithms is a fully illustrated, friendly guide that teaches you how to apply common algorithms to the practical problems you face every day as a programmer. You'll start with sorting and searching and, as you build up your skills in thinking algorithmically, you'll tackle more complex concerns such as data compression and artificial intelligence. Each carefully presented example includes helpful diagrams and fully annotated code samples in Python.
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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
Computers & technology
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April 20, 2023
It's just like a storybook, walking daily folks to identify algorithms in our everyday life!
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April 18, 2023
great
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.
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