Programming Pearls (ACM Press)

The essays in this book present programs that go beyond solid engineering techniques to be creative and clever solutions to computer problems. The programs are fun and teach important programming tecniques and fundamental design principles. "Just as natural pearls grow from grains of sand that irritate oysters, programming pearls have grown from real problems that have irritated real programmers. With origins beyond solid engineering, in the realm of insight and creativity, Bentley's pearls offer unique and clever solutions to those nagging problems. Illustrated by programs designed as much for fun as for instruction, the book is filled with lucid and witty descriptions of practical programming techniques and fundamental design principles. It is not at all surprising that Programming Pearls has been so highly valued by programmers at every level of experience."--BOOK JACKET. Each chapter discusses a problem the programmer will face every day, and suggests methods around it. The underlying thought behind the book is creativity. Preliminaries Cracking the Oyter Aha! Algorithms Data Structures Programs Writing Correct Programs Jon Bentley. Includes Bibliographies And Index.