Programming Challenges | The Programming Contest Training Manual

Steven S Skiena (u. a.)

ISBN 10: 0387001638 / ISBN 13: 9780387001630

Published by Springer, 2003

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Programming Challenges | The Programming Contest Training Manual | Steven S Skiena (u. a.) | Taschenbuch | Texts in Computer Science | ccclxxxiv | Englisch | 2003 | Springer | EAN 9780387001630 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg, juergen[dot]hartmann[at]springer[dot]com | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Programming Challenges | The Programming Contest Training Manual
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0387001638
• ISBN 13: 9780387001630
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 235W x 178H x 21D millimeters 235 millimeters width by 178 millimeters height by 21 millimeters depth
• Weight: 667 grams
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Synopsis

There are many distinct pleasures associated with computer programming. Craftsmanship has its quiet rewards, the satisfaction that comes from building a useful object and making it work. Excitement arrives with the flash of insight that cracks a previously intractable problem. The spiritual quest for elegance can turn the hacker into an artist. There are pleasures in parsimony, in squeezing the last drop of performance out of clever algorithms and tight coding.

The games, puzzles, and challenges of problems from international programming competitions are a great way to experience these pleasures while improving your algorithmic and coding skills. This book contains over 100 problems that have appeared in previous programming contests, along with discussions of the theory and ideas necessary to attack them. Instant onlinegrading for all of these problems is available from two WWW robot judging sites. Combining this book with a judge gives an exciting new way to challenge and improve your programming skills.

This book can be used for self-study, for teaching innovative courses in algorithms and programming, and in training for international competition.

The problems in this book have been selected from over 1,000 programming problems at the Universidad de Valladolid online judge. The judge has ruled on well over one million submissions from 27,000 registered users around the world to date. We have taken only the best of the best, the most fun, exciting, and interesting problems available.

About the Author

Steven S. Skiena is a professor of computer science at SUNY Stony Brook and is the author of many widely used books, including The Algorithm Design Manual. He received the 2001 IEEE Computer Society Undergraduate Teaching Award. Miguel A. Revilla is a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Vallodolid, Spain. He is the official website archivist of the ACM ICPC and creator/maintainer of the primary robot judge and content-hosting website.