Book 1
Have you ever wondered how a programmer develops games and writes code without having to think too much? Do you want to know what makes a programmer confident about the code they write? Do you want to learn how programmers use algorithms to determine how to structure their programs before they develop it? If you did, this is the book for you.
An algorithm is a set of rules or instructions you provide to a system. The system performs a specific process to answer a question using these instructions. As an amateur or expert, it is important for you to understand what an algorithm is and how you should define it. Once you learn to develop an algorithm, you can easily learn to develop code to execute that algorithm. Throughout this book, you will learn about the following:
โข Algorithms and their characteristics
โข How you should define the algorithm
โข Types of algorithms
โข Analyzing an algorithm based on time and space complexities
โข Writing code keeping an algorithm in mind
โข And more!
This book will also show you how to implement the sorting and searching algorithms using C and Java programming languages, since these are the most common languages used by programmers. Bear in mind an algorithm is only a set of instructions, and this means you can use an algorithm to write code using different programming languages. You will only need to understand the properties of the programming language and use the right syntax.
Book 2
Are you interested in furthering your knowledge of algorithms ? Do you want to learn how they work for real-world problems? Then you've come to the right place. This guide will walk you through algorithm design before digging into some of the top design techniques.
Here's what you will learn:
โข The steps involved in designing an algorithm
โข The top algorithm design techniques
โข The Divide and Conquer algorithm
โข The Greedy Algorithm
โข Dynamic Programming
โข The Branch and Bound Algorithm
โข The Randomized Algorithm
โข Recursion and backtracking
And everything that goes with them.
Included are plenty of algorithm designs and code implementations to show you how it all works.
Book 3
Are you studying data science and want to take your learning further ? Data structures are an integral part of data science, machine learning, and algorithms, all aimed at solving programming challenges that might seem insurmountable at the outset. Advanced Data Structures for Algorithms builds on your current knowledge, taking your learning much deeper and teaching you how to solve even the trickiest of challenges.
This book has been divided into four parts:
Part One covers advanced lists, including:
โข An overview of linked lists
โข Doubly linked lists
โข XOR linked lists
โข Self-organizing lists
โข Unrolled linked lists
Part Two covers trees, including:
โข Segment trees
โข Trie trees
โข Fenwick trees
โข AVL trees
โข Red-black trees
โข Scapegoat trees
โข Treap
โข N-ary
Part Three discusses disjoint sets or Union-finds, as they are sometimes known
Part Four covers heaps and priority queues, including:
โข A brief discussion on binary heaps
โข Binomial heaps
โข Fibonacci heaps
โข Leftist heaps
โข K-ary heaps
โข Iterative heapsorts
Youโll find plenty of code examples to help you make sense of things and common-sense explanations.
If you want to advance your knowledge of data structures for algorithms you are in the right place.