Dive Into Algorithms

Acknowledgments

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.” This is how Charles Peguy described writing individual words. The same thing is true of chapters and whole books. At times, it felt like I was pulling this book out of my overcoat pocket. At other times, it felt like I was tearing it from my guts. It seems appropriate to acknowledge everyone who contributed to the long process, either by loaning me an overcoat or by helping me clean up my spilled guts.

Many kind people helped me on the long path I took to gain the experience and skills required to write this book. My parents, David and Becky Tuckfield, gave me so many gifts, starting with ...