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* '''Essential Algorithms: A Practical Approach to Computer Algorithms''' - Rod Stephens [http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118612108.html link] code is in C++. He does throw some math at you, but the examples are ultimately easy to understand (I hope!) and he throws in a lot of real world examples. Really fell in love with this despite my allergies to C++. | * '''Essential Algorithms: A Practical Approach to Computer Algorithms''' - Rod Stephens [http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118612108.html link] code is in C++. He does throw some math at you, but the examples are ultimately easy to understand (I hope!) and he throws in a lot of real world examples. Really fell in love with this despite my allergies to C++. | ||
* '''Cracking the Coding Interview''' - This is really nice, especially if you are only interested in algorithms for interviewing and don't have time for other stuff. She gives a lot of great real-life advice, as interviewing for big tech companies seems like its own thing and it's a difficult but not impossible game to play; just like the SAT's, LSAT's, ... etc. Much of it seems to be simulating your life as if you were a 3rd or 4th year undergrad as a Computer Science major. Most Masters and Ph.D. Computer Science folks can't do this stuff from memory either. So just pretend that you're 21 again, and finishing your last semester as an undergrad at MIT, at Stanford, at UC Berkeley or at Cal Tech and then you'll be all set! ;) | * '''Cracking the Coding Interview''' - This is really nice, especially if you are only interested in algorithms for interviewing and don't have time for other stuff. She gives a lot of great real-life advice, as interviewing for big tech companies seems like its own thing and it's a difficult but not impossible game to play; just like the SAT's, LSAT's, ... etc. Much of it seems to be simulating your life as if you were a 3rd or 4th year undergrad as a Computer Science major. Most Masters and Ph.D. Computer Science folks can't do this stuff from memory either. So just pretend that you're 21 again, and finishing your last semester as an undergrad at MIT, at Stanford, at UC Berkeley or at Cal Tech and then you'll be all set! ;) |