Algorithms in C (Computer Science Series)

I've used many of these algorithms over the years, so when my son started taking C in college I got him the same book that I've found so useful.

This is the perfect book for a reader who wants the core logic and fundamental data structures needed to implement some of the popular algorithms.This is perhaps a little dated but if you are looking for algorithms and are C/C++ programmer, then this is the book. If you're looking for a well refined shiny API to re-use a library of these algorithms, then this won't be useful to you.If you need to build something from scratch and need to learn how to fuse one of these algorithms natively into your system then this book will help.

My advisor gave me a copy of this book as a graduation present in 1990, in Pascal. I thought I still had it, so when I find I needed the C version for a graduate class (this has since been upgraded to Algorithms in C++) I decided to sve beaucoup bucks in getting a used version. And the book is just as I remember, just in C. Here's hoping the C++ version is just as clear!I would highly recommend this book for anyone wanting to either learn or review basic algorithms in an undergraduate or graduate class, or in the workplace. It helped me write several parsers when I needed them!

The code examples in this book require cryptography to interpret - the idea of meaningful variable names is not something that the author subscribes to. I would not recommend this book to anyone starting out programming because it reinforces bad code layout, and doesn't show what can be done by using sensible variable names to help write self-documenting code. More experienced programmers would probably rather read pseudocode anyway... Algorithms in C is significantly less useful than the earlier Algorithms book by the same author.

It is the classic of data structures and algorithms. ANSI 1989 ‘C’ is used for the example code. Nice hardcover. Sturdy. Comprehensive. Relevant.

It's quite terse and needs many more COMPLETE diagrams for better visualization of difficult concepts. Fill-in-the-details sort of diagrams don't quite cut it for understanding complicated algorithms. The explanation of code isn't that verbose, so you might have to read the same sentence three or more times to understand its meaning.

I got the quality product I was expecting based on the vendors description.

Great book!! Best c book out there

Received wrong book

すごく良い。思ったより。Very good. Better than expected.

Good book, used it for class.Use the thesaurus because there are a lot of mistakes in the code examples and elsewhere.

The book's content is organized in a bad way I think. The C++ code is horrible and is written in a bad and error prone way. The implementation of the data structures and algorithms is terrible. Sedgewick clearly didn't know C++ and the book was clearly published as a new version of the "Algorithms in C" book because C++ was hot at the time - a quick way to bank some bucks. I see no reason to use C++ to illustrate algorithms - use C, it's simpler and has less overhead for the reader.