The Bag of Tricks

Powerful Ideas

Some concepts, like the arch of bricks in construction work, are pretty obvious once you have learned them. Though they are normally easy to learn, it is a very rare individual indeed that can come up with one of them on his own. And not knowing them can make simple things nearly impossible to accomplish. That is why the fundamentals must be complemented with a knowledge of recursion, sorting and searching, data structures, etc.