2012
"Understanding Algorithms and Data Structures" by Brunskill and Turner was on the reading list of one my units on my CS course.
I enjoy doing the exercises. Page 21 (in the chapter "Necessary Mathematics") has an exercise on sketching and comparing graphs for various mathematical functions. I thought I'd have a go I'd at it with Python and Matplotlib (a Python library for graphs). Using a combination of range, map (which applies a function to every item of an iterable), determining the function name (via .__name__), which are passed to Matplolib, the code is fairly succinct, as seen in this code snippet:
functions=[mf.f,mf.g,mf.h,mf.j,mf.m,mf.n] for i in functions: plt.plot(range(5), map(i,range(1,6)), 'o-', label=i.__name__) print i.__name__,map(i,range(1,6))
Image output:
Full source doe is ./code
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