Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach by Udi Manber [pdf]
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Re: Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach by Udi Manber [pdf]
#2Students learning Algorithms for the first time should never touch CLRS. It is the worst thing that a beginner can pick up. It is good as a reference text.
Beginners should start with this. This book "actually" teaches you how algorithms are designed and how to break down problems into chunks and solve them using induction/recursion.
Your mind will just be blown.
Re: Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach by Udi Manber [pdf]
#3Students learning Algorithms for the first time should never touch CLRS. It is the worst thing that a beginner can pick up. It is good as a reference text. Beginners should start with this. This book "actually" teaches you how algorithms are designed and how to break down problems into chunks and solve them using induction/recursion. Your mind will just be blown.
And if not a beginner I would go straight to chapter 5 "Design of Algorithms by Induction". One of my favorite algorithms books.
Re: Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach by Udi Manber [pdf]
#4Students learning Algorithms for the first time should never touch CLRS. It is the worst thing that a beginner can pick up. It is good as a reference text. Beginners should start with this. This book "actually" teaches you how algorithms are designed and how to break down problems into chunks and solve them using induction/recursion. Your mind will just be blown.
I wouldn't say that, it's just the audience is different. It's basically a math theory text for getting into academic CS.
Re: Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach by Udi Manber [pdf]
#5Students learning Algorithms for the first time should never touch CLRS. It is the worst thing that a beginner can pick up. It is good as a reference text. Beginners should start with this. This book "actually" teaches you how algorithms are designed and how to break down problems into chunks and solve them using induction/recursion. Your mind will just be blown.
What about people who took a basic alg/ds class in the past but forgot most of it many years later?
Re: Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach by Udi Manber [pdf]
#6This is a great book for teaching you how to invent algorithms. I use the skills i learned from it all the time.
Re: Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach by Udi Manber [pdf]
#7This is a great book for teaching you how to invent algorithms. I use the skills i learned from it all the time.
Can you show some example(s) on the techniques ?
Re: Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach by Udi Manber [pdf]
#8Students learning Algorithms for the first time should never touch CLRS. It is the worst thing that a beginner can pick up. It is good as a reference text. Beginners should start with this. This book "actually" teaches you how algorithms are designed and how to break down problems into chunks and solve them using induction/recursion. Your mind will just be blown.
I also recommend Jeff Erickson's book.
Re: Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach by Udi Manber [pdf]
#9Students learning Algorithms for the first time should never touch CLRS. It is the worst thing that a beginner can pick up. It is good as a reference text. Beginners should start with this. This book "actually" teaches you how algorithms are designed and how to break down problems into chunks and solve them using induction/recursion. Your mind will just be blown.
What infuriated me about CLRS was that so much of the content was in the exercises - that had no answers you could check your results against. There are solutions guides you can look up now, but that they would publish such a hostile math book in the first place rubbed me the wrong way.