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Title: Practical Algorithms for Programmers by Andrew Binstock, John Rex ISBN: 0-201-63208-X Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 19 June, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.82 (11 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book
Comment: If you want to learn how to implement the LZW algorithm in your code, or do other commmon algorithms in C this book is for you. I found it very useful. As for the other 1-star reviews, I think that they did not review the title correctly. This is a book for experianced programmers looking to improve their code. I give this book 5-stars.

Rating: 5
Summary: The most complete collection of implemented algorithms.
Comment: This book has the singular benefit of doing complete implementations of algorithms, not just code snippets nor pseudo-code. (The code is in C.)

The book also covers lots of the algorithms other books forget: searching for multiple strings at once, searching for regular expressions, complete calendar routines, arbitrary-precision arithmetic, phonetic searches, most data-compression algorithms (including the one used by Microsoft in its product distribution), etc. Plus all the traditional sorts and data structures that appear in other books. As to data structures, it's one of the few books that implements an ISAM routine using your choice of red-black or B-trees.

(By the way, although there is a coupon at the back of the book for a source code disk, the code is made available here for free download: http://www.pacificdataworks.com/bookdownload.html The authors update the codebase intermittently.)

A good book, which has no direct counterpart.

Rating: 5
Summary: This book is worth to keep
Comment: I bought this book 3 years ago. I learn a lot from it. I still use it. It's worth the money.

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