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Python Algorithms

Mastering Basic Algorithms in the Python Language

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  • © 2014

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  1. Magnus Lie Hetland
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  • Python Algorithms, Second Edition shows you how to implement classic algorithms and design new problem-solving algorithms using Python.

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxi
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  2. Introduction

    • Magnus Lie Hetland
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Basics

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    Pages 9-41

  4. Counting 101

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    Pages 43-66

  5. Induction and Recursion ... and Reduction

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    Pages 67-92

  6. Traversal: The Skeleton Key of Algorithmics

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    Pages 93-113

  7. Divide, Combine, and Conquer

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    Pages 115-138

  8. Greed Is Good? Prove It!

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    Pages 139-161

  9. Tangled Dependencies and Memoization

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    Pages 163-185

  10. From A to B with Edsger and Friends

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    Pages 187-208

  11. Matchings, Cuts, and Flows

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    Pages 209-225

  12. Hard Problems and (Limited) Sloppiness

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    Pages 227-253

  13. Pedal to the Metal: Accelerating Python

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    Pages 255-258

  14. List of Problems and Algorithms

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    Pages 259-265

  15. Graph Terminology

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    Pages 267-271

  16. Hints for Exercises

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    Pages 273-287

  17. Back Matter

    Pages 289-295
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About this book

Python Algorithms, Second Edition explains the Python approach to algorithm analysis and design. Written by Magnus Lie Hetland, author of Beginning Python, this book is sharply focused on classical algorithms, but it also gives a solid understanding of fundamental algorithmic problem-solving techniques.

The book deals with some of the most important and challenging areas of programming and computer science in a highly readable manner. It covers both algorithmic theory and programming practice, demonstrating how theory is reflected in real Python programs. Well-known algorithms and data structures that are built into the Python language are explained, and the user is shown how to implement and evaluate others.

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“The book is structured as probably any book or course for programming. Starting from the basics with the Asymptotic Notation and the complexity of algorithms and going to various structures and cases. After each chapter you have problems with hints for their resolution at the end of the book. … If you know Python already to some good working level and you need to understand algorithms for a reason, the book would bring you there.” (Vitosh Academy, vitoshacademy.com, October, 2015)

About the author

Magnus Lie Hetland is an experienced Python programmer, having used the language since the late 1990s. He is also an associate professor of algorithms at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, having taught algorithms for the better part of a decade. Hetland is the author of Practical Python and Beginning Python, first and second editions, as well as several scientific papers.

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