Data Structures and Algorithms Made Easy: Data Structures and Algorithmic Puzzles 5th ed. Edition

You need this book if you're serious about coding

no words is enough. simply awesome for all levels of programmers. nice examples, easy to brush up your CS fundamentals

If you're a computer science student at the undergrad or graduate level, or you work with computer algorithms in work (or *want* to do such work), this book might be useful to have on your shelf. I would not use this book to learn the basics of algorithms in the first place, but more as a companion book to a more traditional textbook, to get a summary of facts and a good overview of a wide range of algorithms. Comparing it to other algorithm and data structure textbooks, the material in this book is wide but shallow. There are many different algorithms and data structures examined--easily more than any other algorithm book I've come across--but you get almost a "Cliff's Notes" summary of the algorithm a lot of times. For example, in O'Reilly's "Algorithms in a Nutshell" and Sedgewick's "Algorithms", merge sort gets a deep treatment with several implementations shown in each book and a lot of words of analysis. However, in Mr. Karumanchi's book, it gets a single page with one implementation, a handful of bullet points, and a few sentences of analysis. Don't expect much in the way of mathematical proofs or theory here, but rather a straight to the point mindset. Which, if you've already studied merge sort before, and just want some basic questions answered (What is the recurrence relation? What is the space/time complexity? Why would I use this over another sorting algorithm?) could well be exactly what you need.

Incredible book. I wish I read this one earlier. A great book for all levels of expertise.

Some subjects should probably be revised, but visuals and subjects are good.However, code should be revised for sorting methods in my opinion.

The information is probably great, but the horrible navigation issues makes it difficult to navigate.

Book is too advanced for me at the moment but I'm sure it will come in handy later.

Very poor quality printing