Introduction to Computing and Algorithms by Russel L Shackelford

by Russell L. Shackelford

Excellent Book

Genres: Computer Science

Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

Reviews

[knoba · Rating 4 out of 5]

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Part 1. The computing perspective
1. Technology, science and change
2. Overview of algorithms
Part 2. The algorithm toolkit
3. Basic data, operations and decisions
4. Tools for procedural abstraction
5. Tools for data abstraction
6. Algorithmic methods
7. Tools for estimating cost & complexity
8. Tools for verifying correctness
9. Tools for behavioural abstraction
Part 3. The limits of computing
10. Concurrency & parallelism
11. Hierarchies of complexity
Part 4 (Appendix). Pseudocode examples

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

The "Food for Thought" anecdotes at the end of each chapter earned the 4th star. I'll be keeping this book just to refer back to these.

Otherwise, overall it's not a bad place to start to practice thinking algorithmically. I read it in tandem with learning C++ and it was effective.

[Randall · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dated, in some respects, but the way it is written is still salient in the modern era.