Book description
Algorithms and data structures are much more than abstract concepts. Mastering them enables you to write code that runs faster and more efficiently, which is particularly important for today’s web and mobile apps. Take a practical approach to data structures and algorithms, with techniques and real-world scenarios that you can use in your daily production code, with examples in JavaScript, Python, and Ruby. This new and revised second edition features new chapters on recursion, dynamic programming, and using Big O in your daily work.
Use Big O notation to measure and articulate the efficiency of your code, and modify your algorithm to make it faster. Find out how your choice of arrays, linked lists, and hash tables can dramatically affect the code you write. Use recursion to solve tricky problems and create algorithms that run exponentially faster than the alternatives. Dig into advanced data structures such as binary trees and graphs to help scale specialized applications such as social networks and mapping software. You’ll even encounter a single keyword that can give your code a turbo boost. Practice your new skills with exercises in every chapter, along with detailed solutions.
Use these techniques today to make your code faster and more scalable.
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Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. Why Data Structures Matter
- 2. Why Algorithms Matter
- 3. O Yes! Big O Notation
- 4. Speeding Up Your Code with Big O
- 5. Optimizing Code with and Without Big O
- 6. Optimizing for Optimistic Scenarios
- 7. Big O in Everyday Code
- 8. Blazing Fast Lookup with Hash Tables
- 9. Crafting Elegant Code with Stacks and Queues
- 10. Recursively Recurse with Recursion
- 11. Learning to Write in Recursive
- 12. Dynamic Programming
- 13. Recursive Algorithms for Speed
- 14. Node-Based Data Structures
- 15. Speeding Up All the Things with Binary Search Trees
- 16. Keeping Your Priorities Straight with Heaps
- 17. It Doesn’t Hurt to Trie
- 18. Connecting Everything with Graphs
- 19. Dealing with Space Constraints
- 20. Techniques for Code Optimization
- A1. Exercise Solutions
Product information
- Title: A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2020
- Publisher(s): Pragmatic Bookshelf
- ISBN: 9781680507225
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