First Course In Algorithms Through Puzzles

Author : Ryuhei Uehara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9789811331886

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First Course in Algorithms Through Puzzles by Ryuhei Uehara Pdf

This textbook introduces basic algorithms and explains their analytical methods. All algorithms and methods introduced in this book are well known and frequently used in real programs. Intended to be self-contained, the contents start with the basic models, and no prerequisite knowledge is required. This book is appropriate for undergraduate students in computer science, mathematics, and engineering as a textbook, and is also appropriate for self-study by beginners who are interested in the fascinating field of algorithms. More than 40 exercises are distributed throughout the text, and their difficulty levels are indicated. Solutions and comments for all the exercises are provided in the last chapter. These detailed solutions will enable readers to follow the author’s steps to solve problems and to gain a better understanding of the contents. Although details of the proofs and the analyses of algorithms are also provided, the mathematical descriptions in this book are not beyond the range of high school mathematics. Some famous real puzzles are also used to describe the algorithms. These puzzles are quite suitable for explaining the basic techniques of algorithms, which show how to solve these puzzles.

Author : Alexander Kulikov,Pavel Pevzner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985731214

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Learning Algorithms Through Programming and Puzzle Solving by Alexander Kulikov,Pavel Pevzner Pdf

Learning Algorithms Through Programming and Puzzle Solving is one of the first textbooks to emerge from the recent Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) revolution and a com- panion to the authors' online specialization on Coursera and MicroMasters Program on edX. The book introduces a programming-centric approach to learning algorithms and strikes a unique balance between algorithmic ideas, programming challenges, and puz- zle solving. Since the launch of this project on Coursera and edX, hundreds of thousands students tried to solve programming challenges and algorithmic puzzles covered in this book.The book is also a step towards developing an Intelligent Tutoring System for learning algo- rithms. In a classroom, once a student takes a wrong turn, there are limited opportunities to ask a question, resulting in a learning breakdown, or the inability to progress further without individual guidance. When a student suffers a learning breakdown, that student needs immediate help in order to proceed. Traditional textbooks do not provide such help, but the automated grading system described in this MOOC book does!The book is accompanied by additional educational materials that include the book website, video lectures, slides, FAQs, and other resources available at Coursera and EdX.

Author : Anany Levitin,Maria Levitin
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780199740444

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Algorithmic Puzzles by Anany Levitin,Maria Levitin Pdf

Algorithmic puzzles are puzzles involving well-defined procedures for solving problems. This book will provide an enjoyable and accessible introduction to algorithmic puzzles that will develop the reader's algorithmic thinking. The first part of this book is a tutorial on algorithm design strategies and analysis techniques. Algorithm design strategies — exhaustive search, backtracking, divide-and-conquer and a few others — are general approaches to designing step-by-step instructions for solving problems. Analysis techniques are methods for investigating such procedures to answer questions about the ultimate result of the procedure or how many steps are executed before the procedure stops. The discussion is an elementary level, with puzzle examples, and requires neither programming nor mathematics beyond a secondary school level. Thus, the tutorial provides a gentle and entertaining introduction to main ideas in high-level algorithmic problem solving. The second and main part of the book contains 150 puzzles, from centuries-old classics to newcomers often asked during job interviews at computing, engineering, and financial companies. The puzzles are divided into three groups by their difficulty levels. The first fifty puzzles in the Easier Puzzles section require only middle school mathematics. The sixty puzzle of average difficulty and forty harder puzzles require just high school mathematics plus a few topics such as binary numbers and simple recurrences, which are reviewed in the tutorial. All the puzzles are provided with hints, detailed solutions, and brief comments. The comments deal with the puzzle origins and design or analysis techniques used in the solution. The book should be of interest to puzzle lovers, students and teachers of algorithm courses, and persons expecting to be given puzzles during job interviews.

Author : Srini Devadas
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780262534307

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Programming for the Puzzled by Srini Devadas Pdf

Learning programming with one of “the coolest applications around”: algorithmic puzzles ranging from scheduling selfie time to verifying the six degrees of separation hypothesis. This book builds a bridge between the recreational world of algorithmic puzzles (puzzles that can be solved by algorithms) and the pragmatic world of computer programming, teaching readers to program while solving puzzles. Few introductory students want to program for programming's sake. Puzzles are real-world applications that are attention grabbing, intriguing, and easy to describe. Each lesson starts with the description of a puzzle. After a failed attempt or two at solving the puzzle, the reader arrives at an Aha! moment—a search strategy, data structure, or mathematical fact—and the solution presents itself. The solution to the puzzle becomes the specification of the code to be written. Readers will thus know what the code is supposed to do before seeing the code itself. This represents a pedagogical philosophy that decouples understanding the functionality of the code from understanding programming language syntax and semantics. Python syntax and semantics required to understand the code are explained as needed for each puzzle. Readers need only the rudimentary grasp of programming concepts that can be obtained from introductory or AP computer science classes in high school. The book includes more than twenty puzzles and more than seventy programming exercises that vary in difficulty. Many of the puzzles are well known and have appeared in publications and on websites in many variations. They range from scheduling selfie time with celebrities to solving Sudoku problems in seconds to verifying the six degrees of separation hypothesis. The code for selected puzzle solutions is downloadable from the book's website; the code for all puzzle solutions is available to instructors.

Author : Iain T. Adamson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447110231

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Data Structures and Algorithms: A First Course by Iain T. Adamson Pdf

All young computer scientists who aspire to write programs must learn something about algorithms and data structures. This book does exactly that. Based on lecture courses developed by the author over a number of years the book is written in an informal and friendly way specifically to appeal to students. The book is divided into four parts: the first on Data Structures introduces a variety of structures and the fundamental operations associated with them, together with descriptions of how they are implemented in Pascal; the second discusses algorithms and the notion of complexity; Part III is concerned with the description of successively more elaborate structures for the storage of records and algorithms for retrieving a record from such a structure by means of its key; and finally, Part IV consists of very full solutions to nearly all the exercises in the book.

Author : Harry H. Chaudhary.
Publisher : Createspace LLC USA
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781500136956

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Data Structure and Algorithmic Puzzles Using C : by Harry H. Chaudhary. Pdf

Essential Data Structures Skills -- Made Easy! This book gives a good start and Complete introduction for data structures and algorithms for Beginner’s. While reading this book it is fun and easy to read it. This book is best suitable for first time DSA readers, Covers all fast track topics of DSA for all Computer Science students and Professionals. Data Structures and Other Objects Using C or C++ takes a gentle approach to the data structures course in C Providing an early, text gives students a firm grasp of key concepts and allows those experienced in another language to adjust easily. Flexible by design,. Finally, a solid foundation in building and using abstract data types is also provided. Using C, this book develops the concepts and theory of data structures and algorithm analysis in a gradual, step-by-step manner, proceeding from concrete examples to abstract principles. Standish covers a wide range of Both traditional and contemporary software engineering topics. This is a handy guide of sorts for any computer science engineering Students, Data Structures And Algorithms is a solution bank for various complex problems related to data structures and algorithms. It can be used as a reference manual by Computer Science Engineering students. this Book also covers all aspects of B.TECH CS,IT, and BCA and MCA, BSC IT. || Inside Chapters. || ============== 1 Introduction. 2 Array. 3 Matrix . 4 Sorting . 5 Stack. 6 Queue. 7 Linked List. 8 Tree. 9 Graph . 10 Hashing. 11 Algorithms. 12 Misc. Topics. 13 Problems.

Author : Pramod Ganapathi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Mathematical and Algorithmic Puzzles by Pramod Ganapathi Pdf

This book presents serious mathematical and algorithmic puzzles that are mostly counterintuitive. The presented puzzles are simultaneously entertaining, challenging, intriguing, and haunting. This book introduces its readers to counterintuitive mathematical ideas and revolutionary algorithmic insights from a wide variety of topics. The presented solutions that are discovered by many mathematicians and computer scientists are highly counterintuitive and show supreme mathematical beauty. These counterintuitive solutions are intriguing to the degree that they shatter our preconceived notions, shake our long-held belief systems, debunk our fundamental intuitions, and finally rob us of sleep and haunt us for a lifetime. Multiple ways of attacking the same puzzle are presented which teach the application of elegant problem-solving strategies.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198853732

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Poems That Solve Puzzles by Anonim Pdf

Poems that Solve Puzzles is the biography of an idea. The idea that algorithms - sequences of simple step-by-step instructions - can solve the most complex problems. The book traces this idea from the earliest algorithms etched on clay tablets 4,000 years ago to the most recent discoveries in artificial intelligence and quantum computing.

Author : Robert A. Hearn,Erik D. Demaine
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781439865057

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Games, Puzzles, and Computation by Robert A. Hearn,Erik D. Demaine Pdf

The authors show that there are underlying mathematical reasons for why games and puzzles are challenging (and perhaps why they are so much fun). They also show that games and puzzles can serve as powerful models of computation-quite different from the usual models of automata and circuits-offering a new way of thinking about computation. The appen

Author : George Heineman
Publisher : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781492091011

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Learning Algorithms by George Heineman Pdf

When it comes to writing efficient code, every software professional needs to have an effective working knowledge of algorithms. In this practical book, author George Heineman (Algorithms in a Nutshell) provides concise and informative descriptions of key algorithms that improve coding in multiple languages. Software developers, testers, and maintainers will discover how algorithms solve computational problems creatively. Each chapter builds on earlier chapters through eye-catching visuals and a steady rollout of essential concepts, including an algorithm analysis to classify the performance of every algorithm presented in the book. At the end of each chapter, youâ??ll get to apply what youâ??ve learned to a novel challenge problemâ??simulating the experience you might find in a technical code interview. With this book, you will: Examine fundamental algorithms central to computer science and software engineering Learn common strategies for efficient problem solvingâ??such as divide and conquer, dynamic programming, and greedy approaches Analyze code to evaluate time complexity using big O notation Use existing Python libraries and data structures to solve problems using algorithms Understand the main steps of important algorithms

Author : Roland Backhouse
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470684535

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Algorithmic Problem Solving by Roland Backhouse Pdf

An entertaining and captivating way to learn the fundamentals of using algorithms to solve problems The algorithmic approach to solving problems in computer technology is an essential tool. With this unique book, algorithm guru Roland Backhouse shares his four decades of experience to teach the fundamental principles of using algorithms to solve problems. Using fun and well-known puzzles to gradually introduce different aspects of algorithms in mathematics and computing. Backhouse presents you with a readable, entertaining, and energetic book that will motivate and challenge you to open your mind to the algorithmic nature of problem solving. Provides a novel approach to the mathematics of problem solving focusing on the algorithmic nature of problem solving Uses popular and entertaining puzzles to teach you different aspects of using algorithms to solve mathematical and computing challenges Features a theory section that supports each of the puzzles presented throughout the book Assumes only an elementary understanding of mathematics Let Roland Backhouse and his four decades of experience show you how you can solve challenging problems with algorithms!

Author : Dennis E. Shasha
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780470169360

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Puzzles for Programmers and Pros by Dennis E. Shasha Pdf

Aimed at both working programmers who are applying for a job where puzzles are an integral part of the interview, as well as techies who just love a good puzzle, this book offers a cache of exciting puzzles Features a new series of puzzles, never before published, called elimination puzzles that have a pedagogical aim of helping the reader solve an entire class of Sudoku-like puzzles Provides the tools to solve the puzzles by hand and computer The first part of each chapter presents a puzzle; the second part shows readers how to solve several classes of puzzles algorithmically; the third part asks the reader to solve a mystery involving codes, puzzles, and geography Comes with a unique bonus: if readers actually solve the mystery, they have a chance to win a prize, which will be promoted on wrox.com!

Author : Jeff Erickson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792644833

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Algorithms by Jeff Erickson Pdf

Algorithms are the lifeblood of computer science. They are the machines that proofs build and the music that programs play. Their history is as old as mathematics itself. This textbook is a wide-ranging, idiosyncratic treatise on the design and analysis of algorithms, covering several fundamental techniques, with an emphasis on intuition and the problem-solving process. The book includes important classical examples, hundreds of battle-tested exercises, far too many historical digressions, and exaclty four typos. Jeff Erickson is a computer science professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; this book is based on algorithms classes he has taught there since 1998.

Author : Anany Levitin
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : Algorithms
ISBN : 8131718379

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Introduction To Design And Analysis Of Algorithms, 2/E by Anany Levitin Pdf

Author : Erik D. Demaine,Martin L. Demaine,Tom Rodgers
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781439865712

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A Lifetime of Puzzles by Erik D. Demaine,Martin L. Demaine,Tom Rodgers Pdf

Martin Gardner has entertained the world with his puzzles for decades and inspired countless mathematicians and scientists. As he rounds out another decade, his colleagues are paying him tribute with this special collection that contains contributions from some of the most respected puzzlemasters, magicians and mathematicians, including: - John H.