May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
310 pages
8h 5m
English
Content preview from Python Data Structures and Algorithms
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Divide and conquer
This programming approach to problem-solving emphasizes the need to break down a problem into smaller problems of the same type or form of the original problem. These subproblems are solved and combined to solve the original problem. The following three steps are associated with this kind of programming.