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This textbook, for second- or third-year students of computer science, presents insights, notations, and analogies to help them describe and think about algorithms like an expert, without grinding through lots of formal proof. Solutions to many problems are provided to let students check their progress, while class-tested PowerPoint slides are on the web for anyone running the course. By looking at both the big picture and easy step-by-step methods for developing algorithms, the author guides students around the common pitfalls. He stresses paradigms such as loop invariants and recursion to unify a huge range of algorithms into a few meta-algorithms. The book fosters a deeper understanding of how and why each algorithm works. These insights are presented in a careful and clear way, helping students to think abstractly and preparing them for creating their own innovative ways to solve problems.
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'Reading this is like sitting at the feet of the master: it leads an apprentice from knowing how to program to understanding deep principles of algorithms.' Harold Thimbleby, The Times Higher Education Supplement
'... a great book to learn how to design and create new algorithms ... a good book that the reader will appreciate in the first and subsequent reads, and it will make better developers and programmers.' Journal of Functional Programming
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Gives insights, notations, and analogies to help students describe and think about algorithms like an expert, without grinding through lots of formal proof. Solutions to many problems are included to let students test their progress, while class-tested PowerPoint slides are on the web to help course instructors.
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- PublisherCambridge University Press
- Publication date2008
- ISBN 10 0521614104
- ISBN 13 9780521614108
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages464
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