Background -- Introduction to computer law -- Fundamental data structures -- Monte Carlo methods -- Sorting -- Dynamic sorted sequences -- Hashing -- Priority queues -- Graph algorithms -- External memory algorithms -- Algorithmic techniques -- String algorithms -- Compression -- Miscellaneous algorithms -- Optimization -- Large numbers -- Computational geometry -- Numerical algorithms -- Cryptography -- General machine learning -- Machine learning- classification -- Machine learning- other tasks.

Dmytro's study of software engineering, particularly software economics and developer productivity, influenced this book's emphasis on simplicity and preference for solution methods applicable to a variety of problems.--back cover