Introduction to Algorithms by The MIT Press $87.00
"Introduction to Algorithms, the 'bible' of the field, is a comprehensive textbook covering the full spectrum of modern algorithms: from the fastest algorithms and data structures to polynomial-time algorithms for seemingly intractable problems, from classical algorithms in graph theory to special algorithms for string matching,...
VB Strings - programming examples of enhanced string processing (Programming by Example - a fun & easy way to learn Visual Basic) by Books To Believe In $2.99
This book's theme is string programming. In it, you'll find a wide variety of programming examples, demonstrating everything from simple subroutines and functions to complete applications. You'll find little fluff and stuff around the code, other than comment lines, as this is the best way to get right to the core of the code. Feel free to add the fluffy stuff as you wish to create the look and...
Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers by Chris Bishop $27.95
Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. Without even knowing it, we...
Algorithms (4th Edition) by Addison-Wesley Professional $79.99
Essential Information about Algorithms and Data Structures A Classic Reference The latest version of Sedgewick’s best-selling series, reflecting an indispensable body of knowledge developed over the past several decades. Broad Coverage Full treatment of data structures and algorithms for sorting, searching, graph processing, and string processing, including fifty algorithms every...
Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications by O'Reilly Media $39.99
Want to tap the power behind search rankings, product recommendations, social bookmarking, and online matchmaking? This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build Web 2.0 applications to mine the enormous amount of data created by people on the Internet. With the sophisticated algorithms in this book, you can write smart programs to access interesting datasets from other web sites, collect...
The Algorithm Design Manual by Springer $89.95
This expanded and updated second edition of a classic bestseller continues to take the "mystery" out of designing and analyzing algorithms and their efficacy and efficiency. Expanding on the highly successful formula of the first edition, the book now serves as the primary textbook of choice for any algorithm design course while maintaining its status as the premier practical reference guide to...
Sun Position - High accuracy solar position algorithms - a resource for programmers and solar energy engineers (Programming by Example) by Books To Believe In $9.99
Knowing how to calculate the sun's position in the sky with very high accuracy is at the core of just about all solar energy research, whether for site planning, or real time aiming of the most sophisticated concentrating receivers, heliostats, and photovoltaic tracking systems. Sun Position's Visual Basic algorithms meet that core need. The author, John Clark Craig, programmed all the field...
Hacker's Delight by Addison-Wesley Professional $59.99
A collection useful programming advice the author has collected over the years; small algorithms that make the programmer's task easier. * At long last, proven short-cuts to mastering difficult aspects of computer programming * Learn to program at a more advanced level than is generally taught in schools and training courses, and much more advanced than can be learned through individual...
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by O'Reilly Media $17.99
"The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. " --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham We are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves...
Networks, Crowds, and Markets: Reasoning About a Highly Connected World by Cambridge University Press $50.00
Over the past decade there has been a growing public fascination with the complex connectedness of modern society. This connectedness is found in many incarnations: in the rapid growth of the Internet, in the ease with which global communication takes place, and in the ability of news and information as well as epidemics and financial crises to spread with surprising speed and intensity. These...