Magnus Lie Hetland is an experienced Python programmer, having used the language since the late 1990s. He is also an associate professor of algorithms at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, having taught algorithms for the better part of a decade. Hetland is the author of Practical Python and Beginning Python, first and second editions, as well as several scientific papers.

• 1. Introduction 2. The Basics 3. Counting 101 4. Induction and Recursion ... and Reduction 5. Traversal: The Skeleton Key of Algorithmics 6. Divide, Combine, and Conquer 7. Greed Is Good? Prove It! 8. Tangled Dependencies and Memoization 9. From A to B with Edsger and Friends 10. Matchings, Cuts, and Flows 11. Hard Problems and (Limited) Sloppiness 12. Pedal to the Metal: Accelerating Python 13. List of Problems and Algorithms 14. Graph Terminology! 15. Hints for Exercises

"The book is structured as probably any book or course for programming. Starting from the basics with the Asymptotic Notation and the complexity of algorithms and going to various structures and cases. After each chapter you have problems with hints for their resolution at the end of the book. ... If you know Python already to some good working level and you need to understand algorithms for a reason, the book would bring you there." (Vitosh Academy, vitoshacademy.com, October, 2015)