Grokking Algorithms : An illustrated guide for programmers and other curious people EPUB

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. Youll start with sorting and searching and, as you build up your skills in thinking algorithmically, youll 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 youll 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, youll learn how to apply common algorithms to the practical programming problems you face every day. Youll start with tasks like sorting and searching. As you build up your skills, youll 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.

Whats Inside

• Covers search, sort, and graph algorithms
• Over 400 pictures with detailed walkthroughs
• Performance trade-offs between algorithms
• Python-based code samples

1. Introduction to algorithms
2. Selection sort
3. Recursion
4. Quicksort
5. Hash tables
6. Breadth-first search
7. Dijkstras algorithm
8. Greedy algorithms
9. Dynamic programming
10. K-nearest neighbors