Table of Contents

1. Preface
   1. Who this book is for
   2. What this book covers
   3. To get the most out of this book
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      3. Conventions used
   4. Get in touch
      1. Reviews
1. Understanding the Depth-First Search Algorithm
   1. Installing and setting up libraries
      1. Setting up Python
      2. Setting up Graphviz
      3. Installing pip
   2. Introduction to file searching applications
   3. Basic search concepts
   4. Formulating the search problem
   5. Building trees with nodes
   6. Stack data structure
   7. The DFS algorithm
      1. Recursive DFS
   8. Do it yourself
   9. Summary
2. Understanding the Breadth-First Search Algorithm
   1. Understanding the LinkedIn connection feature
   2. Graph data structure
   3. Queue data structure
   4. The BFS algorithm
   5. BFS versus DFS
      1. Order of traversal
      2. Data structures
      3. Memory
      4. Optimal solution
   6. Do it yourself
   7. Summary
3. Understanding the Heuristic Search Algorithm
   1. Revisiting the navigation application
   2. The priority queue data structure
   3. Visualizing a search tree
   4. Greedy BFS
   5. A* Search
   6. What is a good heuristic function?  
      1. Properties of a good heuristic function
         1. Admissible
         2. Consistent
   7. Summary
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