| How to Solve It by Computer (Prentice-Hall International Series in Computer Science) |  | Author: R. G. Dromey
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 1540246
Media: Paperback
Pages: 442
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0134340019
Dewey Decimal Number: 519.4
EAN: 9780134340012
ASIN: 0134340019
Publication Date: July 1982
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The BEST book I have in my collection March 22, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I bought this book in 1990. I still read it from time to time. I could not have been a successful programmer without this. I would strongly recommend this to anybody who wants to be a programmer. The first ever book you should read. I will save this book for my children, grand children and so on.
A MUST for begineer programmer January 15, 2000
Girish Deshmukh (Chicago, USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book should be treated as Bible. It starts with very simple examples as swaping two numbers and goes in depth taking you along with it. I have not found anything as good as this in many years. It gives a beginner programmer much needed confidence very soon. It does not use much programming language (It uses pascal syntax...but pascal is almost English). If you are entering into programming field..start with this book. You will never forget "How to Solve it by computers" in your entire life. This book has no shelf life. You will never need this again....but you cannot do it without first time. Computer Algorithm teaching at its VERY BEST!
A must read book July 10, 2000
VishnuVardhan Vempati (USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book "How to solve it by computer" is a must read book for those who want to be programmer. Dromey he teaches each and every problem in the easy and understanble way.He does't use any particular language to solve all those problems, he just uses psudo code engish like language. Any persona who wants to be programmer should first read this book and then only start learning Porgramming languages.
its too good September 5, 1999
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I did not find any book on programming which could be used on any language without much difficulty. Its presents the logic exactly the way I like - "Discover your way to the solution!"
Must Read May 10, 2002
Scorn (United States)
I stumbled upon this great book in algorithms called "How to
Solve it by Computer" by Dromey. I came across it when I was
finding material on the classic work by Polya "How to
Solve it" (1957) which is not directly related to Computer Science.Dromey has applied Polya's work to CS and has even dedicated
his text to him. Although the book is fairly fundamental,
the style is excellent. He starts with the most obvious (not
so good solution) and *incrementally* builds on that
solution till he refines it to the most optimal solution. The book also discusses relatively advanced materials like dynamic programming and Longest Monotone Subsequence. The book was written in 1982 when Pascal was prevalent, so
the solutions are in Pascal, but nonetheless its a true
classic !
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