"A comprehensive treatment that focuses on how to create efficient data structures and algorithms, this text helps readers understand how to select or design the data structure that will best solve a specific problem. This edition uses Microsoft's C++ as the programming language and is suitable for second-year data structure courses and computer science courses in algorithmic analysis"-- Provided by publisher.

Let Hadoop For Dummies help harness the power of your data and rein in the information overload Big data has become big business, and companies and organizations of all sizes are struggling to find ways to retrieve valuable information from their massive data sets with becoming overwhelmed. Enter Hadoop and this easy-to-understand For Dummies guide. Hadoop For Dummies helps readers understand the value of big data, make a business case for using Hadoop,...

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson's New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed The Innovators is a "riveting, propulsive, and at times deeply moving" (The Atlantic) story of the people who created the computer and the internet.
What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative...

"A nuts-and-bolts explainer book that explores what cryptography does, how it keeps us secure in cyberspace, and why it is so controversial. Though we may not see it, cryptography plays a critical role in our everyday lives, from the movies we stream and our Google searches to even opening our car doors with electronic key fobs. Broadly defined as a set of tools for establishing the basic elements of security in cyberspace, cryptography enables us...

How can computers talk to one another . . . and to you? Why is artificial intelligence the new buzzword? How can computers make you healthier? The answers to all those questions- and more-are in science . . . and in this book. Computers are a vital part of the world today, so the more you know about them and how they work, the better off you'll be. Read on to find out more about how they are made and used. And it's not just computers-science is all...