{"version":"1.0","type":"link","provider_name":"Hardcover","provider_url":"https://hardcover.app","cache_age":86400,"title":"Algorithmic Thinking","url":"https://hardcover.app/books/algorithmic-thinking","description":"A hands-on, problem-based introduction to building algorithms and data structures to solve problems with a computer. Algorithmic Thinking will teach you how to solve challenging programming problems and design your own algorithms. Daniel Zingaro, a master teacher, draws his examples from world-class programming competitions like USACO and IOI. You\u0026#39;ll learn how to classify problems, choose data structures, and identify appropriate algorithms. You\u0026#39;ll also learn how your choice of data structure, whether a hash table, heap, or tree, can affect runtime and speed up your algorithms; and how to adopt powerful strategies like recursion, dynamic programming, and binary search to solve challenging problems. Line-by-line breakdowns of the code will teach you how to use algorithms and data structures like: The breadth-first search algorithm to find the optimal way to play a board game or find the best way to translate a book Dijkstra\u0026#39;s algorithm to determine how many mice can exit a maze or the number of fastest routes between two locations The union-find data structure to answer questions about connections in a social network or determine who are friends or enemies The heap data structure to determine the amount of money given away in a promotion The hash-table data structure to determine whether snowflakes are unique or identify compound words in a dictionary NOTE: Each problem in this book is available on a programming-judge website. You\u0026#39;ll find the site\u0026#39;s URL and problem ID in the description. What\u0026#39;s better than a free correctness check?","author_name":"Daniel Zingaro","author_url":"https://hardcover.app/authors/daniel-zingaro","thumbnail_url":"https://assets.hardcover.app/external_data/60059300/40772f6452abe60fbb8dd7d3a47d0172a1b48e24.jpeg","thumbnail_width":128,"thumbnail_height":169}