Solving problems on ACM UVA <http://www.acm.uva.es>, SPOJ<http://www.spoj.pl>, Codechef <http://www.codechef.com> helps too plus it is fun.
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Alan Gauld <alan.ga...@btinternet.com>wrote: > > "C.T. Matsumoto" <c.t.matsum...@gmail.com> wrote > > I'd say sharpening my problem solving skills. I thought that was often >>>> tied to building an algorithm. The example Walter Prins provided I >>>> thought fit what I was looking for. >>>> >>> > "To keep this simple and practical, as a suggestion, consider the problem >> of sorting a list (a pack of cards, or a list of names or whatever you want) >> into order." >> >> Yes, there are many built-ins that wrap good algorithms, so I guess I'm >> leaning more toward problem solving. The above example must be solved >> without using sorted() or list.sort(). >> > > OK, having read more I think Knuth will be too deep. > > Try Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley. > It covers more than just algoprithm development and is full of useful > generic advice about writing programs (eg dangers of over optimisation > etc) but includes quite a lot on algorithm development. And its easy and > fun to read too. > > You can probably get the earlier 2 volumes (try the first as a taster - I > see vol2 on Amazon.com for less than $5 and vol1 on Amazon.co.uk > for less than £1) secondhand or the more recent combined single > volume. > > Alan G > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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