Puzzles for Programmers and Pros

Dennis E. Shasha

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Puzzles for Programmers and Pros

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• Aimed at both working programmers who are applying for a job where puzzles are an integral part of the interview, as well as techies who just love a good puzzle, this book offers a cache of exciting puzzles • Features a new series of puzzles, never before published, called elimination puzzles that have a pedagogical aim of helping the reader solve an entire class of Sudoku-like puzzles • Provides the tools to solve the puzzles by hand and computer • The first part of each chapter presents a puzzle; the second part shows readers how to solve several classes of puzzles algorithmically; the third part asks the reader to solve a mystery involving codes, puzzles, and geography • Comes with a unique bonus: if readers actually solve the mystery, they have a chance to win a prize, which will be promoted on wrox.com!.

Original language	English (US)
Publisher	Wiley
Number of pages	226
ISBN (Electronic)	9781119419273
ISBN (Print)	9780470121689
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119419273
State	Published - Jan 1 2017

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General Computer Science

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