Average Customer Review: 
| Clear and concise, good examples, not too heavy | |
This book was used in my Junior-level Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms course. This was the first semester that we used this book and people seemed to like it. Apparently, the old textbook for my class had too much code and not enough explaination. The author presents most of the algorithms in pseudo-code as apposed to a full implementation, but the code exaples are plentiful. This book will get you learning advanced topics in data structures and algorithms in no time. I learned a lot from this book, and read the first 10 chapters. The scope of topics discussed is large and is presented in top-down fashion. There were even several topic areas that we didn't have time to spend on, like self-organizing lists, networks, self-balancing trees, data compression, and garbage collection. I was tempted to only give 4 stars in this review because there are a painful number of typos/errors in this text. I was usually able to see beyond the errors, but it made it more difficult than it should have been. A new edition should seriously address this. A full grasp of C++ is necessary to read through this book, but that should be given when studying general data structures and algorithms. A C++ reference will be very helpful when doing programming assignments because this is not a book on the language. This book will probably always be on my shelf. Even though all of the code is in C++, which is not eternal, it does not rely heavily on the language. Most of the algorithms are given in pseudo-code, and the data structures are developed independent of the laugage choice. I still plan on reading the sections that we skipped in class. I would recommend this text to any computer science student.
| Kept it simple & straight forward -One of the best DSA books | |
Best book on data structure algorithms. Even helpful for Java developers who worked on C++ long time ago(like me!).
- examples are to the point
- not complex
- detailed description based on examples of how the alg works
-the format of presenting examples are good.Altogether one of the best books for data structures and algorithms.
| A book for the non-reader. | |
If anyone else out there is like me they find data structures to be some major boring $hit. I have to say that I have read very little of this book but have understood the major concepts from the code examples alone. Much of the code I have been able to use directly as it is or with only slight modification for my Data Structures class assignments. I am sure that the text is very good as well from all of the other reviews but between the well commented code, and the diagrams I feel that I am learning data structures quite thoroughly.
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