The Algorithm Design Manual

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Skiena covers this varied field with a mix of humour and wisdom, and he provides an excellent array of references, online code and other resources for everything he touches on. and so one should probably have a more rigorous book at hand to fill in some details when necessary. It is essential for scientists, engineers, and any professionals who aim to solve problems, with a noticeable emphasis on real problems.

It will not only serve as a valuable undergraduate textbook, but it will also become an irreplaceable reference guide for most professionals in the area. Finding the fastest route from your home to your holiday in Wales might be satisfying, but a computer scientist would want to know how to find the best route from anywhere to anywhere.The main part (maybe skipping/skimming down a few chapters) is a very good preparation for algorithm-heavy job interviews (e. The reader-friendly Algorithm Design Manual provides straightforward access to combinatorial algorithms technology, stressing design over analysis. While computers have speeded up enormously in the past ten years - and expensive supercomputers can speed things even more - a bit of thought might speed up a program by much higher factors (or you can avoid thinking altogether by stealing one of the tried-and-trusted algorithms in the guide).

probably a better book to carry around in one's professional life than CLR, though it lacks some of the theoretical intensity of the Big White Book. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. The fact that this book focuses on working source code in examples (as opposed to just pseudo-code) makes it extremely useful for drilling for programming interviews.The list of implementations [and] extensive bibliography make the book an invaluable resource for everyone interested in the subject. I would give this book 4 1/2 stars; it has a fair share of typos, and sometimes problems are duplicated in different sections; this probably reflects how the book was updated.