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Bundle of Algorithms in Java, Third Edition, Parts 1-5: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, and Graph Algorithms (3rd Edition)
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005
EAN: 9780201775785
Edition: 3
ISBN: 0201775786
Label: Addison-Wesley Professional
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1200
Publication Date: August 01, 2003
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Texts provide a tool set for programmers in implementing, debugging, and using graph algorithms across a wide range of computer applications. Volume 1 listed in approval week 50-2002; Volume 2 listed in approval week 32-2003. Softcover.
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The book is very detailed at explaining various algorithms, efficiencies, and hitting on the advantages and disadvantages of each algorithm. If you read through the chapters sequentially and study them in detail, you will certainly learn a lot about the various algorithms.
However, the examples and code used in the book is impossible to follow. If you wish to implement any of the algorithms, you really just have to write the algorithm yourself - it may even be easier to write it from scratch without even looking at the authors examples. This is NOT a book to go to if you want to type up a given sorting algorithm to use for some purpose. The code is hard to follow due to horrible variable naming, references back to code from previous chapters, relies on code from previous chapters, relies on code that the reader is supposed to write as part of the exercises, etc.
I've been working on trying to get a running copy of my own for Radix sort typed up. I thought ... Read More
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Great book on Datastructures. Much verbose than the other books. But the java example in this book are horrible, particularly the variables used. Just letters are used as variables, instead of appropriate names, making it very hard to follow the example.
So overall, I would suggest buying Adam Drozdek's algorithm book.
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This book is a total mess, I don't know if it's the author or the publisher but is written in a style that got me really frustrated.
The author has the bad habit of start explaining a thing a little bit (not enough to fully understand it) then say something like "we will cover this topic in depth in chapter 7", and you are in chapter 2. This sort of jump back and forth is completely frustrating, the book doesn't seem to have any kind of flow. The same technique is used inside a chapter too, you start reading about something then the author start diverging in the middle of the topic to come back after few pages.
The code samples are a total mess, it's just really bad. I mean common, read any introductory book in software development and you get warned in the first chapter not to name your variables i,j,v i1...just give them a meaningful name.
Every time I read sample code in this book I had to spent at least 20 minutes deciphering what the variables are suppose ... Read More
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These text(s) do for the software engineer what Cormen's book does for the scientist. To be knowledgable with algorithms will greatly seperate you from a novice.
Very good examples and using Java is very smart because most OO programmers can easily understand the language (C# is practically identical).
For those who struggle with the Cormen book, (Like I did) it would do you well to get this book. You will refer to it time and time again in your career as a software developer while the Cormen book collects dust on the shelf.
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This series is a treasure to keep. The book is filled with great diagrams and very easy to understand language.
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