40 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know

What this book covers

Chapter 1, Overview of Algorithms, summarizes the fundamentals of algorithms. It starts with a section on the basic concepts needed to understand the working of different algorithms. It summarizes how people started using algorithms to mathematically formulate certain classes of problems. It also mentions the limitations of different algorithms. The next section explains the various ways to specify the logic of an algorithm. As Python is used in this book to write the algorithms, how to set up the environment in order to run the examples is explained next. Then, the various ways in which an algorithm's performance can be quantified and compared against other algorithms are discussed. Finally, this chapter discusses various ...