Data Structures the Fun Way
An Amusing Adventure with Coffee-Filled Examples
$54.83
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
10 January 2023
Summary
Learn how and when to use the right data structures in any situation, strengthening your computational thinking, problem-solving, and programming skills in the process.
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 endeavor. You’ll learn how to work with more than 15 key data structures, from stacks, queues, and caches to bloom filters, skip lists, and grap…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781718502604 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1718502605 |
| Author: | Jeremy Kubica |
| Publisher: | No Starch Press,US |
| Imprint: | No Starch Press,US |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 10 January 2023 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 177mm |
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Critics Review
“The perfect book for novice programmers as well as developers who want to improve their knowledge of key software concepts.”
—Ben Dickson, TechTalks
“Clear and fun to someone learning the topics for the first time… . overall a great read.”
—Jeanne Boyarsky, CodeRanch
“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!”
—Eduardo Blázquez, @Farenain, COSEC Lab at Charles III University of Madrid
“Good overview of data structures, intuitive with good visualizations.”
—Lucille E Nguyen, Computational Social Scientist
“A fun intro to the topic for self-taught programmers and data scientists.”
—Crow Intelligence
About The Author
Jeremy Kubica
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.
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