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This repo contains Python ports of the code listings fromClever Algorithms. It is one of those rare books which tackle theory and yet present the reader with working code. How I wish more books were written like this.

The book has its ownGitHub repo, utilizing Ruby.

First of all, note that this repository isn't synchronized withthe main Clever Algorithms repository. My main purpose is in learning the algorithms in the book and transcribing them to Python; I've come to believe that implementing algorithms on your own is a good learning exercise. I'm taking the Ruby listings as pseudocode that is also the reference implementation. In the process, I hope to familiarize myself with the algorithms and Ruby.

So, all directories, save forpython, are not to be taken as updated.

Under thepython directory, the code listings are sorted by chapter and are named after the name used by the book (e.g., Random Search of Chapter 2 ispython/2_Stochastic_Algorithms/random_search.py). At the beginning of each file, I note the chapter and section in the book in which the algorithm can be found (e.g., Random Search is noted as 2.2). The docstring also contains a description the algorithm and some notes on the code listing itself. These were taken directly from the book, unless noted.

All Python codes will be for (plain) Python 3.1.2 .

There arePython versions of the pseudocodes in Russel and Norvig'sArtificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach. There are also listings for other languages as well as a standard data set at thebook's official site.