Algorithms and Data Structures: The Basic Toolbox 2008th Edition by Kurt Mehlhorn (PDF)

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Algorithms are at the heart of every nontrivial computer application, and algorithmics is a modern and active area of computer science. Every computer scientist and every professional programmer should know about the basic algorithmic toolbox: structures that allow efficient organization and retrieval of data, frequently used algorithms, and basic techniques for modeling, understanding and solving algorithmic problems. This book is a concise introduction addressed to students and professionals familiar with programming and basic mathematical language. Individual chapters cover arrays and linked lists, hash tables and associative arrays, sorting and selection, priority queues, sorted sequences, graph representation, graph traversal, shortest paths, minimum spanning trees, and optimization. The algorithms are presented in a modern way, with explicitly formulated invariants, and comment on recent trends such as algorithm engineering, memory hierarchies, algorithm libraries and certifying algorithms. The authors use pictures, words and high-level pseudocode to explain the algorithms, and then they present more detail on efficient implementations using real programming languages like C++ and Java.The authors have extensive experience teaching these subjects to undergraduates and graduates, and they offer a clear presentation, with examples, pictures, informal explanations, exercises, and some linkage to the real world. Most chapters have the same basic structure: a motivation for the problem, comments on the most important applications, and then simple solutions presented as informally as possible and as formally as necessary. For the more advanced issues, this approach leads to a more mathematical treatment, including some theorems and proofs. Finally, each chapter concludes with a section on further findings, providing views on the state of research, generalizations and advanced solutions.

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⭐Great for university, describes many fundamental algorithms and data structures concisely. Requires some work to fully understand everything. If you’re looking for “Algorithms and Data Structures for Dummies”, this is not the book for you, and it won’t replace a good lecture—it’ll supplement it. I keep coming back to this book when I need to look up some concept I should remember but forgot, and it’s almost always helpful. You can tell it was written by someone doing “applied theoretical CS”—nearly everything in the book can be implemented easily and efficiently, and it doesn’t contain the things that look good in theory but are worthless when implemented.

⭐Lousy book.The presentation and the explanations are too superficial.Few graphics or pictures of the algorithm’s workings.The authors spend all their time debiting mathematical formulas with little or no explanations at all.This book seems to be copied from some course lectures, with little or no effort spent in making it more user-friendly.

⭐A really useful book for computer science courses but quite a lot of information in not a lot of space, does not make for light reading!

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