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Ask HN: Best non-academic algorithms book?

6 pointsby aecorredoralmost 8 years ago

4 comments

elormalmost 8 years ago
This is a bit vague, but here are some suggestions<p>Algorithms to live by Brian Christian <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.ca&#x2F;Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decisions&#x2F;dp&#x2F;1627790365" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.ca&#x2F;Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decis...</a><p>Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier by Ali Almossawi <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.ca&#x2F;Bad-Choices-Algorithms-Smarter-Happier&#x2F;dp&#x2F;0735222126&#x2F;ref=pd_sim_14_2&#x2F;138-4400745-6525301?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1&amp;refRID=R4DGXJASMEFBWSB0ECP7" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.amazon.ca&#x2F;Bad-Choices-Algorithms-Smarter-Happier...</a>
uuquuqalmost 8 years ago
What would you like the book to cover? The daily driver algorithms and ten thousand pieces of trivia that working programmers keep in their minds, i.e. a non-academic book for working programmers? Breadth-first search, topological sort, the dozen different ways of implementing a hash map, stuff with strings, etc?<p>Or a work of popular science? Describing the few big algorithms that receive a disproportionate amount of attention? FFT, RSA, backpropagation, divide-and-conquer matrix multiplication, quicksort, simplex, and the like?
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WaltPurvisalmost 8 years ago
<i>Data Structures and Algorithms with JavaScript</i> (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;2vDDbHQ" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;amzn.to&#x2F;2vDDbHQ</a>) is a really excellent book, even if you&#x27;re not using JavaScript for anything (I wasn&#x27;t when I first read it, and still found it immensely helpful).
rudedoggalmost 8 years ago
I haven&#x27;t read it but <i>Grokking Algorithms</i> is well reviewed.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manning.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;grokking-algorithms" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.manning.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;grokking-algorithms</a>