Puzzles for programmers and pros / Dennis E. Shasha.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shasha, Dennis Elliott.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mathematical recreations.

Puzzles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Pub., c2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

"Programmer to programmer"--Cover.

"Wrox"--Cover.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611002305

9781119419273

1119419271

9781281002303

1281002305

9780470169360

0470169362

OCLC:

630529367