Description
Book Synopsis Robert Sedgewick is the William O. Baker Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University, where he was founding chairman of the Department of Computer Science. He has held visiting research positions at Xerox PARC, Institute for Defense Analyses, and INRIA, and served on the board of directors at Adobe Systems. His research interests include analytic combinatorics, design and analysis of algorithms and data structures, and program visualization. He has written seventeen books.
Kevin Wayne is the Phillip Y. Goldman Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Princeton University, where he has taught since 1998, earning several teaching awards. He is an ACM Distinguished Educator and holds a Ph.D. in operations research and industrial engineering from Cornell University.
Table of Contents Programs viii
Preface xi
Chapter 1: Elements of Programming 1
1.1 Your First Program 2
1.2 Built-in Types of Data 14
1.3 Conditionals and Loops 50
1.4 Arrays 90
1.5 Input and Output 126
1.6 Case Study: Random Web Surfer 170
Chapter 2: Functions and Modules 191
2.1 Defining Functions 192
2.2 Libraries and Clients 226
2.3 Recursion 262
2.4 Case Study: Percolation 300
Chapter 3: Object-Oriented Programming 329
3.1 Using Data Types 330
3.2 Creating Data Types 382
3.3 Designing Data Types 428
3.4 Case Study: N-Body Simulation 478
Chapter 4: Algorithms and Data Structures 493
4.1 Performance 494
4.2 Sorting and Searching 532
4.3 Stacks and Queues 566
4.4 Symbol Tables 624
4.5 Case Study: Small-World Phenomenon 670
Context 715
Glossary 721
Index 729
APIs 751
