Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python (2015)

If you enjoyed this, I highly recommend also giving this a try: https://github.com/donnemartin/interactive-coding-challenges It's in the same spirit, has some things covered in even more detail and it even has tests you can run on your solutions to verify correctness and instantly receive feedback.

I opened 1.8.1 because I thought it'd be the first section with code and the code was not PEP-8 compliant. Having a brief scan, the authors seem to have a pretty severe aversion to putting spaces after commas, which is a bummer because it really impacts code readability. It's inconsistent even from line to line, so it's not a style thing. They're also inconsistent about using single and double quotes for strings. I skipped ahead to "implementing a stack in…

I read this book cover to cover. For someone self taught, who has a beginner understanding of Python (control structures, data types, classes, functions, loops, etc) this is undoubtedly the easiest way to introduce them to Algorithms and Abstract Data structures. This really takes a beginner to an intermediate level in small easily digestible chunks. My question to you now, HN: are there any books on the market that can guide a beginner/itermediate (who knows Python and perhaps a framework…