My small contribution to the field: http://zvrba.net/downloads/fusion.pdf
Advanced Data Structures
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Re: Advanced Data Structures
#52Often shied away from as too complicated, this book deserves the obligatory mentioning: Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming . Although not using Python and perhaps being too analytical and detailed for an average programmer's taste, the book is the single biggest classic treatise on algorithms and data structures. At the other end of the spectrum - accessible and brief, I find Dasgupta et al. 's Algorithms a refr…
This book is often recommended, but I would dearly love to know how many of its recommenders have actually read it.
I have read the first 50 pages about a 100 times.
Does that count?
P.S. I have never recommended it to anyone though, I don't recommend books I haven't read all the way through. I will get through TAOCP one day, (it's now on my retirement bucket list, along with learning Sanskrit) but I first need to read through a bunch of Math books forst, so I can get past the 50 page hump.
Re: Advanced Data Structures
#53Re: Advanced Data Structures
#54This is very nice. But right now as a programmer, I am using data-structures more on an as-needed basis. Sometimes it is difficult to find the right data-structures for the job. So then it would be nice to have a resource that provides the functionality of data-structures as a black box. Learning these would make more sense than learning also all of the gory technical details upfront.
Part II of Skiena's wonderful "The Algorithm Design Manual" is basically a 300 page, high-level overview of a wide range of advanced data structures/algorithms, practical insight into when to use them, and advice on which implementations to use.
Even if you already have and are happy with CLRS, Skiena's book is a great addition to your library.
Re: Advanced Data Structures
#55All scribe notes in one PDF: http://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.851/spring14/scribe/2012scrib... -- Playlist (2012 lectures from MIT OpenCourseWare): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0yzrZL1py0&list=PLUl4u3cNGP...
this looks really excellent!
Re: Advanced Data Structures
#56I never hear anybody mentioning him but Jeff Erickson's 'Algorithms' textbook [1] has some of the most lucid explanations I've come across. CLRS is often times impenetrable and for the times I didn't like its explanation of something I turned to Jeff Erickson's book and it hasn't failed me yet. I'd urge anybody trying to solidify algorithms and data structures to take a look at it.
Re: Advanced Data Structures
#57I never hear anybody mentioning him but Jeff Erickson's 'Algorithms' textbook [1] has some of the most lucid explanations I've come across. CLRS is often times impenetrable and for the times I didn't like its explanation of something I turned to Jeff Erickson's book and it hasn't failed me yet. I'd urge anybody trying to solidify algorithms and data structures to take a look at it. [1] http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/te…
is there a print version?
Re: Advanced Data Structures
#58I never hear anybody mentioning him but Jeff Erickson's 'Algorithms' textbook [1] has some of the most lucid explanations I've come across. CLRS is often times impenetrable and for the times I didn't like its explanation of something I turned to Jeff Erickson's book and it hasn't failed me yet. I'd urge anybody trying to solidify algorithms and data structures to take a look at it. [1] http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/te…
is there a print version?
No but I printed this PDF (http://jeffe.cs.illinois.edu/teaching/algorithms/everything....). 1250 pages. Not sure about the legality of it.
Re: Advanced Data Structures
#59Often shied away from as too complicated, this book deserves the obligatory mentioning: Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming . Although not using Python and perhaps being too analytical and detailed for an average programmer's taste, the book is the single biggest classic treatise on algorithms and data structures. At the other end of the spectrum - accessible and brief, I find Dasgupta et al. 's Algorithms a refr…
This book is often recommended, but I would dearly love to know how many of its recommenders have actually read it.
I'm in the process of reading Vol 1 atm. It's densely packed but really well presented so far. I should caveat that I'm still near the beginning (learning MIX) so I can't claim that it will remain that way, but so far I'm really enjoying it