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Iterative algorithms: measures of progress and loop invariants -- Examples using more-of-the-input loop invariants -- Abstract data types -- Narrowing the search space: binary search -- Iterative sorting algorithms -- Euclid's GCD algorithm -- The loop invariant for lower bounds -- Abstractions, techniques, and theory -- Some simple examples of recursive algorithms -- Recursion on trees -- Recursive images -- Parsing with context-free grammars -- Definition of optimization problems -- Graph search algorithms -- Network flows and linear programming -- Greedy algorithms -- Recursive backtracking -- Dynamic programming algorithms -- Examples of dynamic programs -- Reductions and NP-completeness -- Randomized algorithms -- Existential and universal quantifiers -- Time complexity -- Logarithms and exponentials -- Asymptotic growth -- Adding-made-easy approximations -- Recurrence relations -- A formal proof of correctness.

Includes index.