Published by Addison Wesley (15 December 2021) © 2022
This fourth edition of Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne’s Algorithms is one of the most popular textbooks on algorithms today and is widely used in colleges and universities worldwide. The algorithms in this book – including 50 algorithms every programmer should know – represent a body of knowledge developed over the last 50 years that has become indispensable, not just for professional programmers and computer science students but for any student with interests in science, mathematics, and engineering and for students who use computation in the liberal arts. In this edition, new Java implementations are written in an accessible modular programming style, where all of the code is exposed to the reader and ready to use.
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The MOOC related to this book is accessible via the "Online Course" link at algs4.cs.princeton.edu. The course, offered each fall and spring, offers more than 100 video lecture segments that are integrated with the text, extensive online assessments, and the large-scale discussion forums that have proven so valuable.
Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne are developing a modern approach to disseminating knowledge that fully embraces technology, enabling people all around the world to discover new ways of learning and teaching. By integrating their state-of-the-art textbook, online content, and MOOC, they have built a unique resource that greatly expands the breadth and depth of the educational experience.
Preface viii
Chapter 1: Fundamentals 3
1.1 Basic Programming Model 81.2 Data Abstraction 64
1.3 Bags, Queues, and Stacks 120
1.4 Analysis of Algorithms 172
1.5 Case Study: Union-Find 216
Chapter 2: Sorting 243
2.1 Elementary Sorts 2442.2 Mergesort 270
2.3 Quicksort 288
2.4 Priority Queues 308
2.5 Applications 336
Chapter 3: Searching 361
3.1 Symbol Tables 3623.2 Binary Search Trees 396
3.3 Balanced Search Trees 424
3.4 Hash Tables 458
3.5 Applications 486
Chapter 4: Graphs 515
4.1 Undirected Graphs 5184.2 Directed Graphs 566
4.3 Minimum Spanning Trees 604
4.4 Shortest Paths 638
Chapter 5: Strings 695
5.1 String Sorts 7025.2 Tries 730
5.3 Substring Search 758
5.4 Regular Expressions 788
5.5 Data Compression 810
Chapter 6: Context 853
Index 933
List of Algorithms 954
List of Clients 955
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