Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python: Write Complex and Powerful Code Using the Latest features of Python 3.7

by Basant Agarwal, Benjamin Baka

Learn to implement complex data structures and algorithms using Python Data structures allow you to store and organize data efficiently. They are critical to any problem, provide a complete solution, and act like reusable code. Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python teaches you the essential Python data structures and the most common algorithms for building easy and maintainable applications. This book helps you to understand the power of linked lists, double linked lists, and circular linked lists. You will learn to create complex data structures, such as graphs, stacks, and queues. As you make your way through the chapters, you will explore the application of binary searches and binary search trees, along with learning common techniques and structures used in tasks such as preprocessing, modeling, and transforming data. In the concluding chapters, you will get to grips with organizing your code in a manageable, consistent, and extendable way. You will also study how to bubble sort, selection sort, insertion sort, and merge sort algorithms in detail. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to build components that are easy to understand, debug, and use in different applications. You will get insights into Python implementation of all the important and relevant algorithms. This book is for developers who want to learn data structures and algorithms in Python to write complex and flexible programs. Basic Python programming knowledge is expected.

Genres: Programming, Computer Science

398 pages, Paperback

Published October 31, 2018

Reviews

[Vlad Bezden · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book if you need to refresh knowledge of DS and Algorithms. It doesn't go to the deep explanation. Good examples to learn from. The book says it uses Python 3.7, but I think there is nothing that can prevent run those examples on Python 3.x. Overall I like this book, but I would not recommend it if you would like to learn DS from the ground up.

[P Michael N · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good overview and refresher of Algorithms and Data structures in Python- I learned and re-learned quite a bit. The examples are thorough and easy to follow with sample code and illustrations. There were some odd typos and repetition that took me out of the flow of reading at times but overall does a good job of covering some key concepts.

[Andrew Breza · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not a bad book, but there are so many better algorithms textbooks out there that I can't really recommend this one.