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A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms in Python, Volume 1
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A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms in Python, Volume 1

by Jay Wengrow
December 2023
Intermediate to advanced
504 pages
11h 43m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Who Is This Book For?

This book is ideal for several audiences:

  • You’re a computer science student who wants a text that explains data structures and algorithms in plain English. This book can serve as a supplement to whatever “classic” textbook you happen to be using.

  • You’re a beginning developer who knows basic programming but wants to learn the fundamentals of computer science to write better code and increase your programming knowledge and skills.

  • You’re a self-taught developer who has never studied formal computer science (or a developer who did but forgot everything!) and wants to leverage the power of data structures and algorithms to write more scalable and elegant code.

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