Bundle of Algorithms in Java, Third Edition, Parts 1-5: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting,...

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	Bundle of Algorithms in Java, Third Edition, Parts 1-5: Fundamentals, Data Structures, Sorting, Searching, ... Robert Sedgewick Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003 - 1200 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Software developers and computer scientists have eagerly awaited this Java version of Robert Sedgewick's landmark text on algorithms. All five parts are completely revamped, illuminating today's best algorithms for an exceptionally wide range of tasks. This is a shrink-wrapped bundle of Algorithms in Java, 3/e, Parts 1-4 and Algorithms in Java, 3/e, Part 5. The price of the bundle is $10 off the cost of buying the volumes individually.

More Practical for Programmers Than Cormen's

These text(s) do for the software engineer what Cormen's book does for the scientist. To be knowledgable with algorithms will greatly seperate you from a novice.

Very good examples and using Java is very smart because most OO programmers can easily understand the language (C# is practically identical).

For those who struggle with the Cormen book, (Like I did) it would do you well to get this book. You will refer to it time and time again in your career as a software developer while the Cormen book collects dust on the shelf.

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A treasure!

This series is a treasure to keep. The book is filled with great diagrams and very easy to understand language.

Great book with horrible examples

Great book on Data structures. Much verbose than the other books. But the java example in this book are horrible, particularly the variables used. Just letters are used as variables, instead of appropriate names, making it very hard to follow the example.

So overall, I would suggest buying Adam Drozdek's algorithm book.

Good Explanations Of Concepts, Poor Coding

The book is very detailed at explaining various algorithms, efficiencies, and hitting on the advantages and disadvantages of each algorithm. If you read through the chapters sequentially and study them in detail, you will certainly learn a lot about the various algorithms.

However, the examples and code used in the book is impossible to follow. If you wish to implement any of the algorithms, you really just have to write the algorithm yourself - it may even be easier to write it from scratch without even looking at the authors examples. This is NOT a book to go to if you want to type up a given sorting algorithm to use for some purpose. The code is hard to follow due to horrible variable naming, references back to code from previous chapters, relies on code from previous chapters, relies on code that the reader is supposed to write as part of the exercises, etc.

I've been working on trying to get a running copy of my own for Radix sort typed up. I thought I would type up the code in this book. That's not working. I've been at it for a couple hours now and I still am jumping around trying to put together the bits of code scattered throughout the book and understand the variables.

So - this book is for people who are interested in studying and learning about the various algorithms, but not for people who learn best by examples. There is plenty to read on the algorithms and much discussion on how they work and when they work best, but trying to make sense out of the code examples is near impossible.

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