Puzzles for programmers and pros [[electronic resource] /] / Dennis E. Shasha
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| Autore: |
Shasha Dennis Elliott
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| Titolo: |
Puzzles for programmers and pros [[electronic resource] /] / Dennis E. Shasha
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| Pubblicazione: | Indianapolis, IN, : Wiley Pub., c2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st edition |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 005.107 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mathematical recreations |
| Puzzles | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Puzzles for programmers and pros |
| ISBN: | 1-119-41927-1 |
| 1-281-00230-5 | |
| 9786611002305 | |
| 0-470-16936-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910271013703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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