Who is the book “Groking Algorithms” for?

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I'm learning JavaScript, so I want to get the algorithms that I will use to program in JavaScript.
I found this book, but one detail confused me, namely, that all the code examples in this book are in python. I do not understand this code, since I have never learned python and do not know. Is this book only for those who know python, or for programmers of other japanese too?

Answer 1

for all,
Python is just sugar

Answer 2

In fact, the algorithm is, as it were, a sequence of actions, it can be described in the language of mathematics, the minutes of the meeting of the founders (the procedure for transferring rights is still an algorithm), the Russian obscene "you take this ... guilt and for ... it over there hole...", etc. etc.
It's just that the author of the book knew python, so he wrote examples in python.

Answer 3

The book is strange. It seems to me that she descends to the level of children. And feeds them information from a spoon.
If you are a normal IT engineer, then you can consume food in solid form. See Algorithms and - Niklaus Wirth. This is a golden classic. Written by the father and creator of Pascal. That is, a person who specifically created a programming language for the learning process.
And this mouse flood ... of the author ... how is it. Bhargava... Save for fun later. I have nothing against the content of the information. But the form of presentation is somehow ... well, as if half of the IT people are mentally retarded and they definitely need to draw pictures.

Answer 4

The author's repository on GitHub contains the algorithm code from the book in a couple of dozen other languages, including JavaScript: https://github.com/egonSchiele/grokking_algorithms

Answer 5

If you want to get acquainted with the beginnings of algorithms, this book is for you. But if you already know something, you can go to Cormen