7卷本《计算机程序设计艺术》的第1卷以基本的程序设计概念和技术开始，然后专注于信息结构——计算机内部信息的表示、数据元素之间的结构关系以及如何有效地处理它们，给出了对于模拟、数值方法、符号计算、软件和系统设计的初等应用。书中附有大量习题和答案，标明了难易程序及数学概念的使用。 此新版本增加了几十项简单且重要的算法和技术，并对有关数学预备知识作了大量修改以适应现时研究的趋势。

Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack: the billions of pages on the World Wide Web. Uploading a photo to Facebook transmits millions of pieces of information over numerous error-prone network links, yet somehow a perfect copy of the photo arrives intact. Without even knowing it, we use public-key cryptography to transmit secret information like credit card numbers; and, we use digital signatures to verify the identity of the websites we visit. How do our computers perform these tasks with such ease? This is the first book to answer that question in language anyone can understand, revealing the extraordinary ideas that power our PCs, laptops, and smartphones. Using vivid examples, John MacCormick explains the fundamental "tricks" behind nine types of computer algorithms, including artificial intelligence (where we learn about the "nearest neighbor trick" and "twenty questions trick"), Google's famous PageRank algorithm (which uses the "random surfer trick"), data compression, error correction, and much more. These revolutionary algorithms have changed our world: this book unlocks their secrets, and lays bare the incredible ideas that our computers use every day.

For many applications, a randomized algorithm is either the simplest or the fastest algorithm available, and sometimes both. This book introduces the basic concepts in the design and analysis of randomized algorithms. The first part of the text presents basic tools such as probability theory and probabilistic analysis that are frequently used in algorithmic applications. Algorithmic examples are also given to illustrate the use of each tool in a concrete setting. In the second part of the book, each chapter focuses on an important area to which randomized algorithms can be applied, providing a comprehensive and representative selection of the algorithms that might be used in each of these areas. Although written primarily as a text for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this book should also prove invaluable as a reference for professionals and researchers.

As the first book to share the necessary algorithms for creating code to experiment with design problems in the processing language, this book offers a series of generic procedures that can function as building blocks and encourages you to then use those building blocks to experiment, explore, and channel your thoughts, ideas, and principles into potential solutions. The book covers such topics as structured shapes, solid geometry, networking and databases, physical computing, image processing, graphic user interfaces, and more.

本书是一部设计与分析领域的经典著作，着重介绍了计算机算法设计领域的基本原则和根本原理。书中深入分析了一些计算机模型上的算法，介绍了一些和设计有效算法有关的数据结构和编程技术，为读者提供了有关递归方法、分治方法和动态规划方面的详细实例和实际应用，并致力于更有效算法的设计和开发。同时，对NP完全等问题能否有效求解进行了分析，并探索了应用启发式算法解决问题的途径。另外，本书还提供了大量富有指导意义的习题。 本书可以作为高等院校计算机算法设计与分析课程的本科生或研究生教材，也可以作为计算机理论研究人员、计算机算法设计人员的参考书。