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Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python - Second Edition

By : Dr. Basant Agarwal, Benjamin Baka
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Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python - Second Edition

By: Dr. Basant Agarwal, Benjamin Baka

Overview of this book

Data structures allow you to store and organize data efficiently. They are critical to any problem, provide a complete solution, and act like reusable code. Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python teaches you the essential Python data structures and the most common algorithms for building easy and maintainable applications. This book helps you to understand the power of linked lists, double linked lists, and circular linked lists. You will learn to create complex data structures, such as graphs, stacks, and queues. As you make your way through the chapters, you will explore the application of binary searches and binary search trees, along with learning common techniques and structures used in tasks such as preprocessing, modeling, and transforming data. In the concluding chapters, you will get to grips with organizing your code in a manageable, consistent, and extendable way. You will also study how to bubble sort, selection sort, insertion sort, and merge sort algorithms in detail. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to build components that are easy to understand, debug, and use in different applications. You will get insights into Python implementation of all the important and relevant algorithms.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

String Algorithms and Techniques

There are many popular string processing algorithms available, depending upon the problem being solved. However, one of the most important, popular, and useful string processing problems is to find a given substring or pattern from some given text. It has various application uses, such as searching an element from a text document, plagiarism detection, and so on.

In this chapter, we will study the standard string processing or pattern matching algorithms that find out the locations of the given pattern or substring in some given text. We will also be discussing the brute-force algorithm, as well as the Rabin-Karp, Knuth-Morris-Pratt (KMP), and Boyer-Moore pattern matching algorithms. We will also discuss some basic concepts related to strings. We will be discussing all of the algorithms with an easy explanation, including examples and implementation...