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Mastering Algorithms with C
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Author: Kyle Loudon
List Price: $39.95
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ISBN: 1565924533
Publisher: O'Reilly & Associates (01 August, 1999)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 29,969
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Not worth your time or money
To be fair and honest, I have not read this entire book and that is because I've read far better ones. If you are interested in this topic (and if you're a programmer or computer scientist, you should be), look to Robert Sedgewick's excellent "Algorithms in C" in two volumes, or "Mastering Algoritms" by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein. While the algorithms in Cormen, etc.'s book are not in C, they are in a pseudo language that easy to convert to C. I'm really, really glad I looked this book over before flushing my (limited) money away.
Rating: 4 out of 5
pretty concise and covers enough ground
Sure, we all have learnt algorithms back in school. We know the fundamentals, we can talk about them, no sweat. But when it comes the time to actually write out an algorithm in C, we all struggle like George W writing SAT. That's why an algorithm book with real useable sample codes is very useful. O'Reilly has a good reputation for pumping out reference books, but there are, inevitably, hits and misses in the series. This volume is a hit. It covers most frequently used everyday algorithms without going into some obscure and generally useless NP-class problems. Full example codes are given on a floopy for easy porting.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Simply a great book
This is truly a wonderful book, consisting recommendations of implementation on most of the basic and common algorithms.
The book is shaped to be useful both for developers with little experience in C programming and also for professionals wanting to learn some more, and maybe make their programs run faster and with greater stability.
Possibly more than anything this book taught me how to get much better memory consumption and smaller code using small yet very intelegently designed functions.I believe that reading and tryng some of the many examples in this book for your programming needs, would change the way you think in programming, in a way that you would automatically make much more efficiant programs no matter if you write them in C, in C++, in Java, in Perl or any such language for that matter.
Recommended for people that think there might be someting they could improve in their programming especially in C. : )
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