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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 puzzles Features 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 puzzles Provides the tools to solve the puzzles by hand and computer The first part of each chapter presents a puzzle; the second part shows readers how to solve several classes of puzzles algorithmically; the third part asks the reader to solve a mystery involving codes, puzzles, and geography Comes with a unique bonus: if readers actually solve the mystery, they have a chance to win a prize, which will be promoted on wrox.com!
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Puzzles for Programmers and Pros, Dennis Shasha
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Puzzles for Programmers and Pros
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Dennis Shasha
- Publisher
- Wrox
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN10
- 0470121688
- ISBN13
- 9780470121689
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Technology & Engineering, Computers & Internet, References & Manuals, Technology, Jigsaw Puzzles
- Rating
- 4.05 out of 5
- Description
- 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 puzzles Features 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 puzzles Provides the tools to solve the puzzles by hand and computer The first part of each chapter presents a puzzle; the second part shows readers how to solve several classes of puzzles algorithmically; the third part asks the reader to solve a mystery involving codes, puzzles, and geography Comes with a unique bonus: if readers actually solve the mystery, they have a chance to win a prize, which will be promoted on wrox.com!