This accessible and entertaining book provides an in-depth introduction to computational thinking through the lens of data structures a critical component in any programming endeavour. You'll learn how to work with more than 15 key data structures, from arrays, stacks, and queues, to caches, bloom filters, skip lists, and graphs. You'll also master linked lists by virtually standing in line at a cafe, hash tables by cataloguing the history of the summer Olympics, and QuadTrees by neatly organizing your kitchen cabinets, all while becoming familiar with basic computer science concepts, like recursion and running time analysis.
Jeremy Kubica is an engineer director specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning. He received a Ph.D. in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University and a BS in Computer Science from Cornell University. He spent his graduate school years creating algorithms to detect killer asteroids (actually stopping them was, of course, left as future work ). He is the author of multiple books designed to introduce people to computer science, including Computational Fairy Tales and The CS Detective, as well as the Computational Fairy Tales Blog.
Title: Data Structures The Fun Way: From Binary Search to QuadTrees in 100 Cups of Coffee
Author: Kubica,Jeremy
ISBN: 9781718502604
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Publisher: No Starch Press,US
Publication Date: 2022-11-10
Number of Pages: 304
Weight: 0.6042 kg
Clear and fun to someone learning the topics for the first time. . . . overall a great read.
-Jeanne Boyarsky, CodeRanch
Good overview of data structures, intuitive with good visualizations.
-Lucille E Nguyen, Computational Social Scientist
A good book to read from beginning to end[;] a nice quick reference for reading about data structures, the complexity of each one, and for what is useful or not!
-@Farenain