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| Data Structures and Other Objects Using C++ (2nd Edition) (ISBN: 0201702975) |
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List Price: $81.00
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Used Price: $49.00
Release Date: 25 July, 2000
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (Paperback)
Sales Rank: 172,411
Author: Michael Main, Walter Savitch
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Average Customer Review:  
After reading the poor reviews I felt bad having to buy this book for a university level data structures course. However, after using this book for a short time I really grew to like it. It is an excellent introduction to classes and OOP in addition to data structures. It picks up right around where most introductory C++ texts leave off. I found the authors explanations to be very clear and the examples to be very relavant to the topics in each chapter. The author seems to build on topics chapter after chapter so it is hard to forget what has already been learned. This is one of the few text books that I am going to keep for future reference.
I more or less liked this book. Upon reading many of the reviews before purchasing the book I was somewhat discouraged from buying it. In the end, I really had no choice since this was the book required for the course I am taking. But, in general it is a very good book. The material itself that is covered isn't the simplest to get a grasp of. You need patience and plenty of hard work. It covers a lot of major topic areas, from linked lists, to sets, to stacks, to queues, to trees, to graphs. Also dedicated chapters introduce and develop upon the concepts of recursion and inheritance. And there are two chapters dedicated to sorting an searching algorithms. The author assumes that you have a relatively good grasp of object oriented concepts. This is not an introduction to C++ book. You should have good groundings in C++ especially with the use of pointers and working with dynamic memmory. Also, if you can think recursively you will be greatly rewarded since most of the examples in later parts of the book rely on this mind twisting yet important concept. If you are using VC++ make sure to use #pragma warning(disable:4786) when working with STL multisets it will save you from the 100 or so compiler warning messages you will get.
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