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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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How to Read This Book

You’ve got to read this book in order. In some books out there you can read each chapter independently and skip around a bit, but this isn’t one of them. Each chapter assumes you’ve read the previous ones, and the book is carefully constructed so you can ramp up your understanding as you proceed.

That being said, there are certain chapters in the latter half of the book that don’t depend entirely on each other. The diagram below depicts which chapters are prerequisites for other chapters.

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For example, you could technically skip from Chapter 10 to Chapter 13 if you wanted to. (Oh! And this diagram is based on a data structure ...

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