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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780201314526
Edition: 3
ISBN: 0201314525
Label: Addison-Wesley Professional
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 720
Publication Date: September 27, 1997
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Covers fundamental data structures and algorithms for sorting, searching, and related applications. Includes expanded coverage of arrays, linked lists, strings, trees, and other basic data structures. Contains many examples. Paper. DLC: C (Computer program language)
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...that is as relevant today as when it was first written.
As a computer scientist for 20 years, few books have had as long lasting an impact as this book. What has always amazed me is that once you've worked your way through an algorithm, and Sedgewick's explanation, you remember it. For me, it was, and still is, a foundation of computer science and as ready a reference today.
Really liked the writing style, Sedgewick does a good job of keeping the explanation human-friendly. Face it, it's a book on algorithms, not quite a summer reading beach book. :-)
All told, I put this book up with the Knuth series...btw, Sedgewick was a student of Knuth's.
Enjoy, and hope it helps out as it did me.
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This is one of the best book that I have ever read. The writer explained data stucture in a very good detail.
However, this is NOT a book for those beginers, writer assumed that readers must have some strong background in both C programming and math. As many C code functions are left out.
There is a clear difference between IT and computer science, if you just make web pages, click mouse in windows, know a little bit about programming, you will find this is a book hard to read and follow. On the other hand if you are computer scientist, digging underground understanding of lists, tree, pattern matching. This book is, undoubtedly the one to go.
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If you purchase this book as I did then be prepared to expend quite a lot of energy to derive any useful learning from this text. I am in full agreement with many of the other reviewers here as to the quality of this book. And I am not just referring to the numerous glaring typos and off-by-one errors but what seems to be a fundamental inability of this author to be able to explain himself in a clear, coherent manner. I do not expect the quality or caliber of say a "Richard Stevens", on every technical publication but this work is below par from what one would expect from a "professor". I have read many technical books over the years, on protocols, programming languages and data structures and algorithms. Reading through the text, and for books like this, compiling and running the examples, is par for the course. You learn by doing not just by reading alone. But a balance should be maintained.
It does have some redeeming qualities. It does cover a fair amount of material ... Read More
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I bought these two book for one reason: to get help implementing algorithms. Since there is lot of code in these books, I thought this would be a good pick. I was wrong. The author is consistently leaving out details vital to understanding the code. He also makes a big deal about abstract data types. This is gloriously of the case. If the readers are supposed to understand the code, transperency would be a more intelligent goal for the author. There are no comments in the code what so ever (yes, this is actually true, not even in the on-line code). The on-line code to this book is a total mess. You would be able to implement all the algorithms from scratch in less time than it would take you to try an piece together the code the author has left for you. The pity is that there are very few other algorithm books that have real code.
Instead of moving on to writing C++ and Java editions of this book, the author should fix the problems with this book and the part 5 book.
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this is the first algorithms book i read, this is last robert sedgewick book i read.
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