{"id":23421,"date":"2016-12-07T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T21:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=23421"},"modified":"2016-12-07T15:00:43","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T21:00:43","slug":"cs-detective-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/cs-detective-book-review\/","title":{"rendered":"The CS Detective by Jeremy Kubica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1593277490\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1593277490&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=6f0beee85c360bf07155c401b753e540\">The CS Detective: An Algorithmic Tale of Crime, Conspiracy, and Computation<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1593277490\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> by Jeremy Kubica is the tory of disgraced ex-detective and hardboiled private eye Frank Runtime.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Runtime knows REGEX and is not afraid to use it.<\/p>\n<p>From the publishers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWhen a robbery hits police headquarters, it&#8217;s up to Frank Runtime and his extensive search skills to catch the culprits. In this detective story, you&#8217;ll learn how to use algorithmic tools to solve the case. Runtime scours smugglers&#8217; boats with binary search, tails spies with a search tree, escapes a prison with depth-first search, and picks locks with priority queues. Joined by know-it-all rookie Officer Notation and inept tag-along Socks, he follows a series of leads in a best-first search that unravels a deep conspiracy. Each chapter introduces a thrilling twist matched with a new algorithmic concept, ending with a technical recap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Learn about the key algorithms, basic data objectgs such as strings, arrays, and stacks.<\/p>\n<p>This well illustrated, well written book is, as far as I know, unique.  Read a novel, learn computer science.<\/p>\n<p>This is for anyone starting out in computer science, including CS students. And, just for fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CS Detective: An Algorithmic Tale of Crime, Conspiracy, and Computation by Jeremy Kubica is the tory of disgraced ex-detective and hardboiled private eye Frank Runtime. Frank Runtime knows REGEX and is not afraid to use it. From the publishers: When a robbery hits police headquarters, it&#8217;s up to Frank Runtime and his extensive search &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/07\/cs-detective-book-review\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The CS Detective by Jeremy Kubica<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[686,40,2389,1153,57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-65L","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23421"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}