Why read A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms?

Book cover of A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms: Level Up Your Core Programming Skills

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If you thought that data structures and algorithms were all just theory, you're missing out on what they can do for your code. Learn to use Big O Notation to make your code run faster by orders of magnitude. Choose from data structures such as hash tables, trees, and graphs…

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Algorithms

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Design

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Why read it?

1 author picked A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Daniel Zingaro

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For an overview book that focuses on intuition—a book that is intentionally designed to evade formality—to make my list, it has to be really, really good. This one is. I appreciate the inclusion of real code in multiple programming languages and the step-by-step traces of algorithms. I appreciate the care taken with the Big O material and the way that abstract data types are introduced. This is one of very few books whose recursion material I like—the ‘napkin’ approach to recursion is wonderfully done.

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