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The authors’ treatment of data structures in Data Structures and Algorithms is unified by an informal notion of “abstract data types,” allowing readers to compare different implementations of the same concept. Algorithm design techniques are also stressed and basic algorithm analysis is covered. Most of the programs are written in Pascal.
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The text covers the material on data structures, sometimes it is hard to understand. A super text on data structure logic is Data Structures A Pseudocode Approach with C. by Rich Gilberg
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5
Hyperbolic remarks about this book will mislead you into thinking that this book is absolutely unique, when it’s not. The material here is standard and present on many, many algorithms and data structures book.
Furthermore, this book is dated, as it uses Pascal. It has very little relevance for today’s world of collections of data structures made by experts (on Java, C#, Eiffel, Smalltlak, etc.) which are resources you need to know how to tap into to be more productive.
And as a last point, algorithm analysis is not the strong point of this book either, as it is just a late chapeter in the book and gets nowhere near advanced (i.e., real) algorithmic analysis (for which you will need higher math, such as calculus and probability).
Nevertheless, it’s a good book but I don’t know if you should buy it instead of that other, nice and new book using Java 5.0 using generics.
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5
This book is very good but if you are looking for information on AVL trees and other advanced concepts in Data Structures look at Donanld Knuth. This book is not for beginners and is a very dense book.
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5
It is just an okay book, not extraordinary in any way. Especially, this is certainly not for the novice in this topic, i.e., it is certainly not a good introductory book. So if you are new to data structures and algorithms, stay away from this book, go for some good introductory book.
For the advanced readers, it is an okay book. Better books are available, e.g., books by Cormen et al. and Robert Sedgewick.
The book is written in a way not very intersting or engaging. The algorithms are not explained in detail. Often things are left unexplained or assumed that the reader already knows it. Algorithms are presented in pseudocode, which causes problems especially for the readers familiar to some particular programming language.
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5
I remember using this text in University. I still have it on my shelf and still refer to it. Even with all this STL and such I find this a great reference. I was looking around the web for a more recent book on algorithms, but I’ve always decided to keep this one. I think the only issue is if a new edition will ever be made to cover OOP implementations.
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5