Table of Contents

The Basics.- Counting 101.- Induction and Recursion… and Reduction.- Traversal: The Skeleton Key of Algorithmics.- Divide, Combine, and Conquer.- Greed Is Good? Prove It!.- Tangled Dependencies and Memoization.- From A to B with Edsger and Friends.- Matchings, Cuts, and Flows.- Hard Problems and (Limited) Sloppiness.

About the Author

Magnus Lie Hetland is an experienced Python programmer, having used the language since the late 1990s. He is also an associate professor of algorithms at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, having taught algorithms for the better part of a decade. Hetland is the author of Practical Python and Beginning Python, first and second editions, as well as several scientific papers.