Overview
Algorithmic Thinking will teach you how to solve challenging programming problems and design your own algorithms. Daniel Zingaro, a master teacher, draws his examples from world-class programming competitions like USACO and IOI. You'll learn how to classify problems, choose data structures, and identify appropriate algorithms. You'll also learn how your choice of data structure, whether a hash table, heap, or tree, can affect runtime and speed up your algorithms; and how to adopt powerful strategies like recursion, dynamic programming, and binary search to solve challenging problems.
Line-by-line breakdowns of the code will teach you how to use algorithms and data structures like:
• The breadth-first search algorithm to find the optimal way to play a board game or find the best way to translate a book
• Dijkstra's algorithm to determine how many mice can exit a maze or the number of fastest routes between two locations
• The union-find data structure to answer questions about connections in a social network or determine who are friends or enemies
• The heap data structure to determine the amount of money given away in a promotion
• The hash-table data structure to determine whether snowflakes are unique or identify compound words in a dictionary
NOTE: Each problem in this book is available on a programming-judge website. You'll find the site's URL and problem ID in the description. What's better than a free correctness check?
This book title, Algorithmic Thinking (A Problem-Based Introduction), ISBN: 9781718500808, by Daniel Zingaro, published by No Starch Press (October 20, 2020) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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