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Robert Sedgewick (born December 20, 1946) is an American computer scientist. He is the founding chair and the William O. Baker Professor in Computer Science at Princeton University [1] and was a member of the board of directors of Adobe Systems (1990–2016). [2] He previously served on the faculty at Brown University and has held visiting ...
Joyce Farrell is the author of many programming books for Course Technology, a part of Cengage Learning. [1] Her books are widely used as textbooks in higher education institutions. She was formerly a professor of computer information systems at Harper College in Palatine, Illinois, US, and earlier taught computer information systems at the ...
Hash table. A small phone book as a hash table. In computing, a hash table is a data structure that implements an associative array, also called a dictionary or simply map; an associative array is an abstract data type that maps keys to values. [2] A hash table uses a hash function to compute an index, also called a hash code, into an array of ...
Java is a high-level, class-based, object-oriented programming language that is designed to have as few implementation dependencies as possible. It is a general-purpose programming language intended to let programmers write once, run anywhere (), [16] meaning that compiled Java code can run on all platforms that support Java without the need to recompile. [17]
Introduction to Algorithms is a book on computer programming by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein.The book has been widely used as the textbook for algorithms courses at many universities [1] and is commonly cited as a reference for algorithms in published papers, with over 10,000 citations documented on CiteSeerX, [2] and over 67,000 citations on ...
100 prisoners problem. Each prisoner has to find their own number in one of 100 drawers, but may open only 50 of the drawers. The 100 prisoners problem is a mathematical problem in probability theory and combinatorics. In this problem, 100 numbered prisoners must find their own numbers in one of 100 drawers in order to survive.
James Gosling OC (born 19 May 1955) is a Canadian computer scientist, best known as the founder and lead designer behind the Java programming language. [3]Gosling was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for the conception and development of the architecture for the Java programming language and for contributions to window systems.
Thinking in Java. Thinking in Java (ISBN 978-0131872486) is a book about the Java programming language, written by Bruce Eckel and first published in 1998. Prentice Hall published the 4th edition of the work in 2006. The book represents a print version of Eckel’s “Hands-on Java” seminar. [1]