Shene's book

Flipping Shene's book "Selected Well-Known Problems" is probably the only must-have algorithm book in the Chinese-speaking world.  (In case you don't know, yes I speak Chinese.)


I bought the book around 12 years ago during my Master.  It's the first book which makes me feel interested in algorithmic study in the first place.  It's format is unique.   It is not a text book but it extracts famous problem and their latest development.  


Prof. Shene is also a big fan of digital camera and principle.  Way to go!  I am going to read the book again from Chapter 7 to Chapter 9.  After that I would have finish a round of browse read. 

Merge sort from Prof Shene's book

One of a less well-known book by Prof Ching-Kuang Shene is 名題精選百則：技巧篇.  It is presented in C (my favorite) and most of the code are neat.

For example, I found the merge sort in the book is probably the clearest for a merge sort requires an extra memory.   That's probably become the merge sort I will write in future.