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# Algorithms Unlocked (Mit Press)

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### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Best overall "motivated learner" book on Algorithms
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2017*

I am reading lot of algorithms books lately due to rekindled interest (the last time I am this motivated is during my high school days!) and the common advice is to read CLRS (C for Cormen) but the book is a 500 pound gorilla and it is neck deep in detailed Math. Imagine my delight when I stumbled on "Algorithms Unlocked" by Cormen - I call this book Baby Cormen. My background is in software engineering and I am paying my dues for 10+ years. I like math but am not in touch with it for many years; though I am currently taking steps to remedy it. So that’s the context. Here goes my review:Pros1. It has a section on "Algorithms on Strings". Out of many books that I perused (Algorithms in a nutshell, Skiena, Eva Tardos etc.), this book, CLRS, Algorithms by Sedgwick has a section on Strings. There are dedicated books on String algorithms but "string problems" appear practically in almost every software engineer's career that I think any general algorithms book should cover a basic portion of it. This one does.2. Chatty but neither boring nor tedious. It uses enough words to convey the concept efficiently.3. It contains math for sections on complexity but algorithm concepts are supported with pictures, sample algorithm runs. One just needs to follow logical arguments as it is explained.4. All the chapters except last few pages in chapter 9, 10 are gems.5. The length of the book is ~222. This cannot be overstated. The faster u reach towards the end of the book the better you will feel about yourself and the more you will like to finish it.6. Pretty good paper quality and print. Love this about MIT press.7. Price is cheap.8. No exercises. Yes this is a good thing actually. It would have affected the flow of the book. If you need exercises then go to Big Cormen (CLRS).Cons1. Typos/Errors. 14 when I counted. I actually thought it cannot have any because some reviewer here said it was copyedited by someone who is a stickler for perfection so I didn't bother to check the errata page (my bad but only 14 errata’s is still impressive) until I stumbled on a possible typo (it turns out it is not) and tried to contact the author by going to the book's website. One should make sure to correct it in the book before reading.2. Chapter 9 - section on LZW compression/decompression could have been little clearer. Chapter 10 - section on Hamiltonian cycle to Hamiltonian path reduction, subset sum reduction could have been little clearer because the explanation had more gaps in logic than usual. The author did say in the preface that he couldn't control getting into more details near the very end of the book but I felt the explanation was unclear because it is rushed than more technical details are employed.All in all this is a solid book that treats you as an intelligent human being than a space alien or a brick.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Ok if you remember abstract HS math; no concrete implementation examples
  

*by M***1 on Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2015*

Admittedly, I'm not finished with it yet & may revise this review later on... So far I've read up through the Sorting chapters.As stated in other reviews & in the book's intro, the author assumes no prior programming knowledge.It's confusing to consider Arrays as starting a 1 & having to add/subtract everywhere, but ok I can deal with it...What wasn't clear at purchase time was the assumption of familiarity with math at let's say "Algebra II" or pre-calc levels.If you don't understand or remember how to deal with factorials, polynomials, exponents & logarithms, you'll need to look those up.These are not particularly difficult or high-level, but my last prolonged exposure to these concepts was more than a decade ago.I do appreciate the need to keep the concepts abstract enough to apply across various applications, but it would be nice to see some concrete implementation. I'd have a much easier time following code examples in a language/syntax I've seen more recently.I'm considering the "Algorithms 4th Ed" book by Sedgewick & Wayne for that reason: practical application w/examples in Java.Modern programming best practices described in books like "The Pragmatic Programmer" or "Code Complete" also clearly emphasize the need to use unique/meaningful names for variables and functions so that people can easily follow your work. It also helps YOU to follow your own work. This book instead takes you back to math class where everything is a meaningless jumble of alphabet soup - "x,y,z,q,p,r,a" - and you have to constantly bounce back & forth (sometimes over several pages) to keep track of what's what.Which example gives you a better idea what's going on?:sortedBooksArray[0] = unsortedBooksArray[x]... OR ...A[q-1] = R[p]Yes, algorithms should be abstract, but if the goal is to explain them clearly they need to first be presented in a concrete way.This is why so many people hate & don't understand math - those who love & understand it fail to describe the practical uses for it in understandable terms. The notation & abstraction work against the stated goal of making algorithms more accessible.Perhaps that's by design, because I'm going to wind up re-writing the psuedocode with my own examples to gain a better understanding. This weekend I will have stacks of books strewn about the living room while I attempt to implement QuickSort for real, and will thereafter come up with some scenarios where I can implement it in code myself. But in that case, I probably could've gotten the same effect from an online tutorial...So far, it's not a bad book - I just haven't really learned anything practical, or that I didn't already know from other online sources that present the topic in a more understandable manner.

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    Difficult to read
  

*by J***H on Reviewed in Canada on February 9, 2021*

After seeing all the positive reviews, I had high hopes for this book but didn't enjoy reading it at all. The chapters are dull and dry. Lots of paragraphs that are hard to read and make sense of. Few pictures and even those black and white pictures don't have numbers; so, sometimes it is hard to know which picture the author is talking about.The code examples are not great either. The indexes of arrays start at 1 to make it easier to understand for non-programmers but makes it harder for programmers, and yet it is highly mathematical and abstract even for me as a programmer. I find it hard to believe a non-programmer can read this book and make sense of most of it.

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