A pleasant read
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I read this book whilst on holiday (had my laptop with me, but managed not to turn it on).
The first part is a gentle intoduction to algorithms. There's little or no mathematics, but the concepts are well covered. The second part is the catalog, which seemed to live up to its name.
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This is a must for programmers
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This book is very well organized. It really helps identifying and solving problems. Highly recommended.
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The hitch-hiker's guide to Algorithms.
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The Catalog was my main reason for buying the book. It's an invaluable reference base for people whose boss 'needs an answer by tomorrow'. + : The War Stories are fun reading, and do a good job of explaining how theory relates to practice. - : Restating the obvious at times, while deliberately vague elsewhere. Net : if you use a greedy heuristic to select your reading, this book probably comes ahead of the pack.
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Quite a useful repository of algorithms
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This book has some excellent information about writing and selecting algorithms, step by step, as well as plenty of pointers to outside information. Chapter 8 in particular is an invaluable reference for quickly implementing a solution to any of many varied problems. However, the textual explanations are sometimes confusing, with significant "jumps" between concepts that could throw off the beginning algorist. Furthermore, the author discounts entire paradigms of computer programming, giving the text a biased and unbalanced feel.
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Review from co-developer of the CD-ROM and website
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As an unbiased reviewer :^) I feel that this is the most useful algorithms text written for the real-world algorist. The CD-ROM contains a wealth of information (including the entire repository of implementations found on the affiliated website, and hours of audio lectures from the author's own algorithms course). The catalog of algorithms is also invaluable.
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