The CS Detective: An Algorithmic Tale of Crime, Conspiracy, and Computation

by Jeremy Kubica

Book Overview

Meet Frank Runtime. Disgraced ex-detective. Hard-boiled private eye. Search expert. When a robbery hits police headquarters, it's up to Frank Runtime and his extensive search skills to catch the culprits. In this detective story, you'll learn how to use algorithmic tools to solve the case. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593277490
• ISBN13: 9781593277499
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: No Starch Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher