本书是计算机科学方面的经典名著。书的内容用绕程序设计人员面对的一系列实际问题展开。作者 Jon Bentley 以其独有的洞察力和创造力，引导读者理解这些问题并学会解决方法，而这均正是程序员实际 编程生涯中至关奄耍的。本书的特色是通过一些精心设计的有趣而又颇具指导意义的程序，对实用程序设 计技巧及基本设计原则进行了透彻而睿智的描述，为复杂的编程问题提供了消晰而完备的解决思路．本书 对各个层次的程序员都具有很高的阅读价值。(This book is a classic in computer science. The book's contents are organized around a series of practical questions faced by programmers. Jon Bentley, with his unique insights and creativity, guides readers through these issues and learns how to solve them, all of which are among the programmer's actual programming lives. The book features a thorough and intelligent descr iption of utility design techniques and basic design principles through some well-designed, interesting and instructive procedures that provide a clear and complete solution to complex programming problems . This book is of high reading value for programmers of all levels.)