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Mastering Algorithms with C
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Mastering Algorithms with C

by Kyle Loudon
August 1999
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
560 pages
18h 57m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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How to Use This Book

This book was designed to be read either as a textbook or a reference, whichever is needed at the moment. It is organized into three parts. The first part consists of introductory material and includes chapters on pointer manipulation, recursion, and the analysis of algorithms. These subjects are useful when working in the rest of the book. The second part presents fundamental data structures, including linked lists, stacks, queues, sets, hash tables, trees, heaps, priority queues, and graphs. The third part presents common algorithms for solving problems in sorting, searching, numerical analysis, data compression, data encryption, graph theory, and computational geometry.

Each of the chapters in the second and third parts of the book has a consistent format to foster the book’s ease of use as a reference and its readability in general. Each chapter begins with a brief introduction followed by a list of specific topics and a list of real applications. The presentation of each data structure or algorithm begins with a description, followed by an interface, followed by an implementation and analysis. For many data structures and algorithms, examples are presented as well. Each chapter ends with a series of questions and answers, and a list of related topics for further exploration.

The presentation of each data structure or algorithm starts broadly and works toward an implementation in real code. Thus, readers can easily work up to the level of detail desired. The ...

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