Algorithm Design Practice for Collegiate Programming Contests and Education

Instructors running algorithm design courses can use this volume as a lab companion and reference, and competitive programmers can use it as a practice set. Its 247 problems come from ACM-ICPC contests and other programming competitions. Each problem comes with a full worked analysis. The problems and, for most of them, their test data are available online.

The chapters track the topics found in a standard algorithms curriculum. Problem-solving techniques are introduced through the analyses and the solutions to each case, so readers learn the methods by applying them.

The book is aimed at computer science students, competitive programmers and working software developers. It is meant to sharpen coding ability and analytical thinking, with a grounding in algorithms and the mathematics they rely on.