Puzzles for Programmers and Pros
Book Details:
| Publisher: | Wrox |
| Series: | Wrox |
| Author: | Dennis Elliott Shasha |
| Edition: | 1 |
| ISBN-10: | 0470121688 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780470121689 |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Published: | Apr 20 2007 |
| Posted: | Nov 19 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Book format: | CHM |
| Book size: | 5.8 MB |
Book Description:
Aimed at both working programmers who are applying for a job where puzzles are an integral part of the interview, as well as techies who just love a good puzzle, this book offers a cache of exciting puzzlesFeatures a new series of puzzles, never before published, called elimination puzzles that have a pedagogical aim of helping the reader solve an entire class of Sudoku-like puzzlesProvides the tools to solve the puzzles by hand and computerThe first part of each chapter presents a puzzle; the second part shows readers how to solve several classes of puzzles algorithmically; the third part asks the reader to solve a mystery involving codes, puzzles, and geographyComes with a unique bonus: if readers actually solve the mystery, they have a chance to win a prize, which will be promoted on wrox.com!
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