Puzzles for programmers and pros / / Dennis E. Shasha

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910677943203321
• Autore: Shasha Dennis Elliott
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Indianapolis, IN, : Wiley Pub., c2007
• ISBN: 9786611002305; 9781119419273; 1119419271; 9781281002303; 1281002305; 9780470169360; 0470169362
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Disciplina: 793.74
• Soggetti: Mathematical recreations; Puzzles
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Programmer to programmer"--Cover.; "Wrox"--Cover.; Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Puzzles for Programmers and Pros; About the Author; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction; Contest Info; p2p.wrox.com; Part I: Mind Games; Sweet Tooth; Byzantine Bettors; A Touch of Luck; Information Gain; Reach for the Sky!; Pork Politics; Social Games; Escape Management; Flu Math; Whipping Ice; Optimal Jargon; Using Your Marbles; Flipping Colors; Scheduling Tradition; Fractal Biology; As Easy as Pie; Lucky Roulette; Legal Logic; The Box Chip Game; Feedback Dividends; Number Clues; Mind Games; Refuse and Reveal; A Biting Maze; Mad Mix; Dig That!; Preferential Romance; No Change for the HolidaysQuiet in the Depths; Solutions; Part II: The Secret of the Puzzle; Order the Ages; Urban Planning; Finding a Schedule That Works; Picturing the Treasure; Sudoku; Number Encoding; Selective Greed; Sweet Packs; Revisiting a Traveling Salesman; Overloaded Scheduling and Freezing Crystals; Wordsnakes; ; Maximal Friends; Winning at the Slots; Understanding Dice; Bait and Switch; Part III: Faithful Foes; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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