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Algorithmic Puzzles 1st Edition

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 280 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (October 14, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0199740445
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199740444
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 0.7 x 6.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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63 of 71 people found the following review helpful
Frustrating Kindle Adaptation
By T Mark W Bottomley on April 25, 2012
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This book contains an excellent collection of algorithmic puzzles. There are lots (150) of puzzles in three difficulty categories. The book itself has 3 parts - the puzzle, the hint(s), and the solution explanation with references and a short history. The conversion to Kindle format was done poorly. You would have thought they could puzzle out that the three parts of the book should be linked so the reader can move back and forth. This is especially problematic as neither of the three sections can stand alone. The Pounstone books, Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques You Need ... to Get a Job Anywhere in the New Economy and How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle - How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers are referenced in the book and they got the connectivity correct. I would recommend the paper version of the book with 3 book marks. Fixing this frustration would raise my rating to 5 stars.

The above Poundstone books do have a small overlap with this book, however they are sufficiently different that purchasing all three books is not a bad idea.
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21 of 23 people found the following review helpful
Kindle edition needs to be ... kindle-ized! Maybe buy the physical book instead.
By Thomas Ehardt on August 1, 2013
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The content of the book itself is OK; there a lot of rehashing of things that have already been rehashed to death.

However, the Kindle edition is terrible. There is no useful navigation, and it's as if someone took a source document for the book and exported to a Kindle document.

There was a real opportunity here to make an extremely useful document; each puzzle can be linked to the hints and solution, and those in turn could be linked back to each other.

I really hope that the publisher will revisit the Kindle edition and make it useful.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Start with this book if you need to do puzzles for programming interviews
By Amazon Reviewer on October 1, 2014
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My motivation for reading this book: preparing for coding interview puzzles.
This is the perspective from which I evaluate the book.

Conclusion: if you are in the coding interview game do yourself a favor and read at least the first 30 pages. Best return on investment, unless you already have specific training on solving puzzles.

I have at least 5 of the most popular titles specifically dedicated to coding interviews but I find that just the first 30 pages of this book are more valuable than all the other books combined. (This statement is limited to the general problem solving topics and not to technical trivia or dedicated computer science topics like tricky manipulations of a linked list.)

The first pages review very clearly the major strategies for solving "puzzles," which is just another word for problems. If you have a computing or mathematics background then likely nothing on those pages will be new. Regardless, in my case the systematic review of these strategies makes the difference between "I know that I should be able to solve this in minutes but still I run around in loops and getting frustrated" to actually being able to convert the problem space to a graphical representation that helps getting the solution in minutes even with the most simplistic approach of exhaustive search. Of course those 30 pages are about describing the progression of the more sophisticated strategies that, even though I have been aware of them all, are extremely helpful to see in a system.

Contrast to other books I've seen: other books usually start with the problem, then either provide the solution up front, or demonstrate one example of how you could start looking for the solution.Read more ›
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Best Puzzle Book I've Ever Read
By CollinS on February 28, 2013
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I bought this book on sight. It's possibly my favorite book of any and all books I own. The puzzles are not only ubiquitous and exciting... they're educational and provide many "Aha!" moments. I've been looking for a book like this for years, and I recommend it to those looking for fun and challenging puzzles of varying difficulty levels. Being a computer science major, many of the puzzles are also fun to implement and solve using programming, emphasizing the "algorithmic" component in the title.

Buy this book!!
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Stimulating
By Randolph L. Smith on October 2, 2012
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More than I ever wanted to know about puzzle analysis. Interesting to see all the logic behind the design. Highly recommended for the puzzle-minded.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Genius
By Chris on January 22, 2014
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Took this book camping. Very clever puzzles from one of the best professors I ever had. This book is a great learning tool.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Good book to practice algorithmic proof based math problems and puzzles
By Abhi on August 18, 2015
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This is a very good book. Among many techniques used in math and in puzzles, algorithmic type of proofs exist for problems where the problem state either directly involves an algorithm or the problem state can be used to derive an algorithm. Algorithms of this sort have certain properties like some quantity either strictly increases, or strictly decreases, or it remains constant etc. Observations of what happens to such quantities can lead to solution of such problems.

Good thing is that it has hints and solutions which are given in separate sections so that if you cannot solve it using hints, you can look at the solutions later. Highly recommended for people interested in problem solving.
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