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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.133
EAN: 9780201632088
ISBN: 020163208X
Label: Addison-Wesley Professional
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 592
Publication Date: June 19, 1995
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Provides a comprehensive, non-academic treatment of the algorithms commonly used in advanced application development, shows how professional programmers actually use algorithms in their daily work, and requires no previous familiarity with the theory of algorithms. (Advanced).
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There are numerous well written books on algorithms. Those by Sedgewick and Knuth come to mind, for example. But some students find these too hard. Binstock and Rex aimed their work at this need. This book has very little in the way of fancy maths. It emphasises examples with complete code listings. Not unlike "Numerical Recipes". Hence, you can also treat the text as a cookbook for your needs.
The code is in C. If you are using another language, you can get some practise in seeing how well and accurately you understand the book's code.
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We have this book in our lab and many times I've been able to refactor my own implementation after reading the code in this book. The chapter that deals with dates is very well presented and doubles as a history lesson since it covers all the adjustments that have been made to our calendar over the centuries. The source is writen in plain C so it should be easy to port to other languages.
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"Practical Algorithms for Programmers" fails to deliver what is mentioned by authors as "The purpose of this book is providing a practical compendium of algorithms for use in applications" and "Most algorithm books today are either academic text books or rehash of the same tired set of algorithms". This book goes over that tired set of algorithms over again (B-Trees, bubble sort, shell sort etc) and is filled with long code listings with little comments and faux paus code practices (if column > 61).
Almost all of the algorithms discussed in the book have already been very well described in various books of the same genre, notably "Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein" which has better explanation and examples. I see that "Practical Algorithms for Programmers" has good description of algorithmic efficiency, B-trees, AVL trees, phonetic comparisons, soundEx and metaphone along with excercises, ... Read More
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This book has the singular benefit of doing complete implementations of algorithms, not just code snippets nor pseudo-code. (The code is in C.)
The book also covers lots of the algorithms other books forget: searching for multiple strings at once, searching for regular expressions, complete calendar routines, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, phonetic searches, most data-compression algorithms (including the one used by Microsoft in its product distribution), etc. Plus all the traditional sorts and data structures that appear in other books. As to data structures, it's one of the few books that implements an ISAM routine using your choice of red-black or B-trees.
(By the way, although there is a coupon at the back of the book for a source code disk, the code is made available here for free download: http://www.pacificdataworks.com/bookdownload.html The authors update the codebase intermittently.)
A good book, which has no direct counterpart.
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I bought this book 3 years ago. I learn a lot from it. I still use it. It's worth the money.
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