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C++ Crash Course
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C++ Crash Course

by Josh Lospinoso
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
792 pages
19h 42m
English
No Starch Press
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18ALGORITHMS

And that’s really the essence of programming. By the time you’ve sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupidmachine can deal with, you’ve learned something about it yourself.—Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

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An algorithm is a procedure for solving a class of problems. The stdlib and Boost libraries contain a multitude of algorithms that you can use in your programs. Because many very smart people have put a lot of time into ensuring these algorithms are correct and efficient, you should usually not attempt to, for example, write your own sorting algorithm.

Because this chapter covers almost ...

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