{"id":206,"date":"2007-08-09T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/08\/programming-pearls-jon-bentley-aug-2007\/"},"modified":"2008-10-24T17:47:49","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T16:47:49","slug":"programming-pearls-jon-bentley-aug-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/08\/programming-pearls-jon-bentley-aug-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Programming Pearls (Jon Bentley)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Programming, 8\/10 &#8211; Aug 2007<\/em><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomfotherby.com\/Images\/BookReviewImages\/programmingPearls.jpg?w=620&#038;ssl=1\" \/>\n<\/td>\n<td>\nThe chapters on algorithms and efficiency (performance, code tuning and space tuning) make this book brilliant. The explanation and benchmarking of the different sorting and searching technique&#8217;s (especially quicksort) are almost fundamental reading for anyone that has a programming interview with a top company.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Beware, in amongst the pearls there are some poos (some parts are a little dull) &#8211; In fact, on one page, it actually says: &#8220;Warning  Boring Material ahead&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programming, 8\/10 &#8211; Aug 2007 The chapters on algorithms and efficiency (performance, code tuning and space tuning) make this book brilliant. The explanation and benchmarking of the different sorting and searching technique&#8217;s (especially quicksort) are almost fundamental reading for anyone that has a programming interview with a top company. Beware, in amongst the pearls there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-techjournal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}