For anyone who has ever wondered how computers solve problems, an engagingly written guide for nonexperts to the basics of computer algorithms.

Have you ever wondered how your GPS can find the fastest way to your destination, selecting one route from seemingly countless possibilities in mere seconds? How your credit card account number is protected when you make a purchase over the Internet? The answer is algorithms. And how do these mathematical formulations translate themselves into your GPS, your laptop, or your smart phone? This book offers an engagingly written guide to the basics of computer algorithms. In Algorithms Unlocked, Thomas Cormen -- coauthor of the leading college textbook on the subject -- provides a general explanation, with limited mathematics, of how algorithms enable computers to solve problems.

Readers will learn what computer algorithms are, how to describe them, and how to evaluate them. They will discover simple ways to search for information in a computer; methods for rearranging information in a computer into a prescribed order ("sorting"); how to solve basic problems that can be modeled in a computer with a mathematical structure called a "graph" (useful for modeling road networks, dependencies among tasks, and financial relationships); how to solve problems that ask questions about strings of characters such as DNA structures; the basic principles behind cryptography; fundamentals of data compression; and even that there are some problems that no one has figured out how to solve on a computer in a reasonable amount of time.

• We started tracking this book on May 3, 2014.
• This book was £10.99 when we started tracking it.
• The price of this book has changed 96 times in the past 3,645 days.
• The current price of this book is £16.69 last checked 3 years ago.
• This book is at its lowest price in the past six months.
• This lowest price this book has been offered at in the past year is £14.48.
• The lowest price to date was £10.99 last reached on May 3, 2014.
• This book has been £10.99 one time since we started tracking it.
• The highest price to date was £18.99 last reached on March 13, 2020.
• This book has been £18.99 8 times since we started tracking it.

• ComputingProgramming
• ComputingProgrammingAlgorithms

• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Disabled
• Print Length: 238 Pages
• File Size: 5,554 KB