kaivalyar/allendowneyexercises

My Solutions to the Exercises from Allen Downey's "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist" (Java version 4.1)

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - Exercise Solutions

My solutions to the exercises presented in Allen Downey's textbook - How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Java version 4.1.

Synopsis

How to Think Like a Computer Scientist is an excellent introductory computer science textbook by Allen Downey. Although intitially written for Java, it has since been converted to multiple languages, including C, C++, and Python. The later Java versions have been renamed to Think Java. This project contains solutions for the version 4.1 of the book.

The code in this project was written over a span of 3 years, from 2011 to 2014, as part of school assignments. It is presented here unchanged, in its initial form. Development was done via gedit (chapters 1 - 9) and BlueJ (chapters 10 - 18). The exercise solutions for each chapter are in a file named either ExerciseAnswers or README.txt, with other files providing the Java code.

Textbook Version issue: The version of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist available in this repository, is 4.0 - I can't find a softcopy of version 4.1. The differences between the two versions are minor, and can be ignored for the purposes of this repository. That being said however, if you wish to contribute the correct version of the book, please feel free to do so by submitting a pull request, or by contacting me.

Set Up

The programs can all be executed via BlueJ or the Terminal. Follow the instructions in the relevant ExerciseAnswers / README.txt for detailed instructions.

Documentation

Since this project consists of exercise solutions, the problem sets themselves act as documentaion. The problems solved are all from the end of chapter exercises in the textbook.

Contact

If you have any questions, suggestions, or feedback, please feel free to write to [email protected]. I look forward to hearing from you.

License

This project is released under and protected by the MIT License

Copyright © 2016 Kaivalya Rawal

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allendowneyexercises's Issues

Inconsistent textbook version of How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

The textbook version available in this repository is version 4.0 - whereas the solutions correspond to version 4.1. This inconsistency arose simply because a softcopy of version 4.1 seems unavailable. If possible please contribute the correct version of this textbook.