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  • 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. 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.

    • The CS Detective: An Algorithmic Tale of Crime, Conspiracy, and Computation by Jeremy Kubica

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    Author:
    Jeremy Kubica
    Binding:
    Paperback
    Language:
    English
    Book Type:
    Nonfiction
    Grade Content:
    4
    Subject:
    Technology
    Copyright:
    2016

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    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. 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.

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    Author Jeremy Kubica
    Binding Paperback
    Language English
    Book Type Nonfiction
    Grade Content 4
    Subject Technology
    Copyright 2016

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