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Meet Frank Runtime. Disgraced ex-detective. Hard-boiled private eye. Search expert. When the police headquarters is hit with a robbery, Frank and his extensive search skills are called upon to catch the culprits. Pulling out his best algorithms, Frank scours smugglers' boats with binary search, tails spies with a search tree, escapes burning prisons with breadth-first search, and burns down cafeterias with queues. He's joined by know-it-all rookie Officer Notation and Socks the inept wizard as he follows leads in a best-first search that unravels a deep conspiracy. Each chapter introduces a new twist and a new concept, ending with a technical summary.§§From finding informants with exhaustive search to lock-picking with priority queues,§§For computer science students and amateur sleuths alike, Search is the most efficient route to understanding algorithms.

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Book category Books in English Computing & information technology Databases

• Full title: Cs Detective
• Author: Jeremy Kubica
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• EAN: 9781593277499
• ISBN: 1593277490
• ID: 02982169
• Publisher: No Starch Press,US
• Weight: 424 g
• Dimensions: 228 × 152 × 17 mm
• Date of publishing: 16. August 2016

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