Data Structures & Algorithms in Python
Data Structures & Algorithms in Python
Learn how to use data structures effectively to write high performance Python programs and algorithms!
This text is packed with figures and easy to understand descriptions of how data structures help organize and accelerate the programs that power today's information systems. It teaches you how to choose the right data structure for an application and how each structure operates.
Understanding how efficiently data structures operate helps you judge how they perform on larger and larger data sets. The order of complexity of algorithms determines what scale of data they can handle. This book explains how to measure that complexity and gently introduces the math needed to understand it.
The widespread adoption of Python makes this text accessible to most novice programmers. If you haven't used Python yet but have written programs in other object-oriented languages, a quick introduction at the beginning teaches you the basics. All of the code is available from the Downloads page so you can try out the examples.
Best of all, an open-source set of visualization tools gives you direct control of each of the data structures. You can try out different operations and step through the code to see how the structures and algorithms work together to produce results.
Some of the worldwide institutions that have adopted this text for their courses are: Bethel College, California Institute of Arts & Technology, Washington Univeristy of Virginia, Yeshiva University, Asia Pacific College, James Cook University, Richard J. Daley College, City Colleges of Chicago, National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad Pakistan, Averett University, and University of North Dakota.
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Data Structures & Algorithms in Python brings the core concepts of computer science to life with extensive descriptions, full calor figures, richly commented code, and interactive visualizations.
Each chapter introduces a kind of data structure or algorithm category, starting with the most basic, the array. Readers build mastery of each topic from the text, illustrations, code, and visualizations. At the end of each chapter, review questions with answers, thought excercises, and programming projects reinforce the new concepts.
The book covers all the fundamental data structures and a few specialized ones:
Algorithms covered:
Everyone learns better by doing. The visualizations developed for this book let you work with the individual operations of each data structure. The visualization tools display the various pieces of data as they are manipulated by different algorithms. The same code as shown in the text appears with highlighting to show the execution. Controls let you slow down, speed up, and step through each algorithm.
See the visualizations live on the visualization page where you can also learn how to download them to run on your local machine.
On the downloads archive page you can find all versions of:
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