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Title: The Design and Analysis of Computer Algorithms (Addison-Wesley Series in Computer Science and Information Processing) by Alfred V. Aho, John E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey D. Ullman ISBN: 0-201-00029-6 Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1974 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $54.38 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The very classic
Comment: Excluding Knuth's opera (another dimension), this (AHU) is about the other and only renowned classic algorithms book, deseverdly I'd say, together with Cormen-Leiserson-Rivest's (CLR) "Introduction to Algorithms". With the difference that the first and only edition of AHU has been written 16 years before the first (of the two) editions of CLR.
The two books are quite different in the language and formalism used: more formal and mathematical inclined AHU with respect to CLR. I'd say, the very classic style of his authors who have made history in the CS literature with their books (particularly 2 on algorithms and data structures, 2 on Computer Theory, 2 on Compilers, 1 on CS foundations): as these books have been used in most universities around the world for decades, they've proved to be real milestones in the education of thousands of students.
The books differ also in scope, since AHU is certainly not an encyclopedic collection as CLR does, with his roughly 500 pages against 1000. In spite of this, I'd point out the following: my textbook on Algorithms was CLR, but when we got to Complexity Classes (P-NP and theory behind) we "had" to switch to AHU for the simple reason that CLR did not almost mention at all Turing Machines nor Space Complexity, without which is certainly possible to learn e.g. about NP-TIME completeness, but without which, such a path would equally certainly miss some foundamental topics of Complexity Theory.
All in all, then, imo the book truly deserves 5 stars (and perhaps it would deserve a second, updated, edition too ... possibly, imho, through a bit less revolutionary revision job than they did with "Introduction to Automata Theory, Language and Computation").
As a final note, those looking for a more applicative and self-reference than an educational introductory text, could have a look at the two-volumes opera by the former Knuth's pupil, Robert Sedgewick (possibly the more consolidated C or C++ versions).
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent presentation of essential concepts
Comment: The book elaborates thoroughly on the basics every programmer should be familiar with. If you are into software development, and have found some unfamiliar concepts in the book description - that's a sure sign that you need this book on your desk.
Rating: 5
Summary: Yet another CS classic
Comment: This is yet another classic from the Aho Gang!
It sets up a very formal framework for discussing alorithms, beginning at the beginning..an abstract mathematical model of a computer. and builds up the rest of the book using the model for implementation as well as quantification.
A solid framework for the analysis of algorithms is setup. The necessary mathematics is covered, helping in measuring an algorithm's complexity..basically the time and space complexities.
Then it goes on to deal with designing algorithms. the design methodology, with elaborate examples and exercises.
It should be admitted however that this is a solid text for the mathematically oriented. Thats the reason for the 5 stars!
If you want to go a little easy on the formalisms try
"Computer Algorithms, Pseudocode" by Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran. I found it more pragmatic.
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Title: Data Structures and Algorithms (Addison-Wesley Series in Computer Science and Information Pr) by Alfred V. Aho, John E. Hopcroft, Jeffrey Ullman ISBN: 0201000237 Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 September, 1982 List Price(USD): $57.19 |
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Title: Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein ISBN: 0262032937 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $79.95 |
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Title: Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation (2nd Edition) by John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman ISBN: 0201441241 Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Pub. Date: 14 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $105.00 |
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Title: An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms by Robert Sedgewick, Philippe Flajolet ISBN: 020140009X Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 30 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition) by Ronald Graham ISBN: 0201558025 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 28 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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