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1 online resource |
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Open textbook library |
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Open Textbook Library
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| Contents |
Part I: Programming environments for motion, graphics, and geometry -- Chapter 1:Reducing a task to given primitives: programming motion -- Chapter 2:Graphics primitives and environments -- Chapter 3:Algorithm animation -- Part II: Programming concepts: beyond notation -- Chapter 4: Algorithms and programs as literature: substance and form -- Chapter 5:Divide-and-conquer and recursion. -- Chapter 6:Syntax -- Chapter 7:Syntax analysis -- Part III: Objects, algorithms, programs. -- Chapter 8:Truth values, the data type 'set', and bit acrobatics -- Chapter 9:Ordered sets -- Chapter 10: Strings -- Chapter 11:Matrices and graphs: transitive closure -- Chapter 12: Integers -- Chapter 13: Reals -- Chapter 14: Straight lines and circles -- Part IV: Complexity of problems and algorithms -- Chapter 15:Computability and complexity -- Chapter 16: The mathematics of algorithm analysis -- Chapter 17: Sorting and its complexity -- Part V: Data structures -- Chapter 18:What is a data structure? -- Chapter 19:Abstract data types -- Chapter 20: Implicit data structures -- Chapter 21: List structures -- Chapter 22: Address computation -- Chapter 23: Metric data structures -- Part VI: Interaction between algorithms and data structures: case studies in geometric computation -- Chapter 24: Sample problems and algorithms -- Chapter 25: Plane-sweep: a general-purpose algorithm for two-dimensional problems illustrated using line segment intersection -- Chapter 26:The closest pair |
| Summary |
An introductory coverage of algorithms and data structures with application to graphics and geometry |
| Notes |
The Global Text Project is funded by the Jacobs Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland |
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Online version, 2011 Global Text Project edition; title from PDF (viewed on June 15, 2016) |
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Computer science -- Textbooks
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Mathematics -- Textbooks
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Algorithms -- Textbooks
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Data structures (Computer science) -- Textbooks
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Algorithms.
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Computer science.
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Data structures (Computer science)
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Mathematics.
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Nievergelt, Jurg, author
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Hinrichs, Klaus, author
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Open Textbook Library, distributor.
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