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Learn to Code by Solving Problems
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Learn to Code by Solving Problems

by Daniel Zingaro
June 2021
Beginner content levelBeginner
336 pages
7h 11m
English
No Starch Press
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10BIG O AND PROGRAM EFFICIENCY

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In the first seven chapters of this book, we focused on writing programs that were correct: for any valid input, we wanted our program to produce the desired output. In addition to correct code, though, we generally want efficient code, code that runs quickly even in the face of huge amounts of input. You may have received the occasional time limit exceeded error when working through the first seven chapters, but our first formal foray into program efficiency wasn’t until Chapter 8, when we solved Email Addresses. We saw there that sometimes we need to make our programs more efficient so that they can finish within ...

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ISBN: 9781098129033