Jeremy Kubica is a Google principal engineer working on machine learning and algorithms. To make computer science accessible and fun for Computer Science students and others he has written a detective story, subtitled "An Algorithmic Tale of Crime, Conspiracy, and Computation". In it readers meet Frank Runtime, disgraced ex-detective; hard-boiled private eye and search expert who uses algorithmic tools to solve a robbery.  

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Author: Jeremy Kubica Publisher: No Starch Press
Date:  August 2016
Pages: 256
ISBN: 978-1593277499
Print: 1593277490
Kindle: B01J92NR0Y

Audience: Computer Science Students
Category: Theory & Techniques  

In the detective story Runtime scours smugglers' boats with binary search, tails spies with a search tree, escapes a prison with depth-first search, and picks locks with priority queues. Joined by know-it-all rookie Officer Notation and inept tag-along Socks, he follows a series of leads in a best-first search that unravels a deep conspiracy. Each chapter introduces a thrilling twist matched with a new algorithmic concept, ending with a technical recap.

For computer science students and amateur sleuths alike, The CS Detective adds an entertaining twist to learning algorithms.

Follow Frank's mission and learn:

• The algorithms behind best-first and depth-first search, iterative deepening, parallelizing, binary search, and more
• Basic computational concepts like strings, arrays, stacks, and queues
• How to adapt search algorithms to unusual data structures
• The most efficient algorithms to use in a given situation, and when to apply common-sense heuristic methods

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