{"id":215556,"date":"2025-06-06T21:17:47","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T02:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/1-introduction-to-algorithms"},"modified":"2025-06-06T21:17:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T02:17:47","slug":"1-introduction-to-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/1-introduction-to-algorithms","title":{"rendered":"1 Introduction to algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/1-introduction-to-algorithms2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An <i>algorithm<\/i> is a set of instructions for accomplishing a task. Every piece of code could be called an <i>algorithm<\/i>, but this book covers the more interesting bits. I chose the <i>algorithm<\/i>s in this book for inclusion because they\u2019re fast, or they solve interesting problems, or both. Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An algorithm is a set of instructions for accomplishing a task. Every piece of code could be called an algorithm, but this book covers the more interesting bits. I chose the algorithms in this book for inclusion because they\u2019re fast, or they solve interesting problems, or both. Here are some highlights:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}