budget-priced text covering programming in C, and an introduction to computer science - in other words, a bog standard first-semester first-year syllabus. The last four chapters include an introduction to algorithm design and analysis, covering dynamic data structures, hashing, sorting algorithms, and searching.

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Postal: Alistair Moffat

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

The University of Melbourne

Victoria 3010, Australia

E-mail: alistair / csse.unimelb.edu.au or

ammoffat / unimelb.edu.au

(note: as of October 2005 the old alistair / cs.mu.oz.au address is deprecated)

Phone: +61 3 8344 1325

Fax: +61 3 9348 1184

Physical location: Room 4.27

ICT Building

111 Barry St.,

Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia.

Research interests

Text and index compression

Text indexing methods, index construction

Information retrieval heuristics

Books

Programming, Problem Solving, and Abstraction with C, 2003

Compression and Coding Algorithms, 2002

Managing Gigabytes: Compressing and Indexing Documents and Images, 1999