Data Abstraction and Problem Solving With C++: Walls and Mirrors [Hardcover]

Frank M. Carrano (Author), Paul Helman (Author), Robert Veroff (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0201874024 | ISBN-13: 978-0201874020 | Publication Date: November 1997 | Edition: 2nd

Focusing on data abstraction and data structures, the second edition of this very successful books continues to emphasize the needs of both the instructor and the student. The book illustrates the role of classes and abstract data types (ADTs) in the problem-solving process as the foundation for an object-oriented approach. Throughout the text, the distinction between specification and implementation is continually stressed. The text covers major applications of ADTs, such as searching a flight map and performing an event-driven simulation. It also offers early, extensive coverage of recursion and uses this technique in many examples and exercises. Overall, the lucid writing style, widespread use of examples, and flexible coverage of the materia have helped make this a leading book in the field. New in this Edition *Uses recent enhancements to C++, such as data type bool and C++ strings *States ADT operations in English, specifies them in pseudocode, and finally implements them in C++. Students can see more clearly the progression from an informal statement of an operation to a more formal specification.* Offers new and revised examples of ADTs that clarify their relationships to classes as well as new coverage of dynamically allocated arrays and circuits *Provides more balance between numeric and nonnumeric examples of recursion *Contains many new exercises and programming problems ** Instructor's materials are available from your sales rep. If you do not know your local sales representative, please call 1-800-552-2499 for assistance, or use the Addison Wesley Longman rep-locator at http://hepg.awl.com/rep-locator. 0201874024B04062001

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New in this Edition Uses recent enhancements to C++, such as data type bool and C++ strings States ADT operations in English, specifies them in pseudocode, and finally implements them in C++. Students can see more clearly the progression from an informal statement of an operation to a more formal specification. Offers new and revised examples of ADTs that clarify their relationships to classes as well as new coverage of dynamically allocated arrays and circuits Provides more balance between numeric and nonnumeric examples of recursion Contains many new exercises and programming problems

** Instructor's materials are available from your sales rep.0201874024B04062001

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Frank M. Carrano is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Rhode Island. 0201874024AB04062001

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 112 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley; 2nd edition (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201874024
• ISBN-13: 978-0201874020
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,738,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best intorductory book for Data Structures, November 14, 1999

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This review is from: Data Abstraction and Problem Solving With C++: Walls and Mirrors (Hardcover)

This book does an excellent job of intorducing the mechanics of Data structures. A very useful book to refresh one's knowledge about data structures and get a rigororus insight in the subject in preparation for advanced studies in the area of Data Structures.

Good book for an introductory University course in Data Structures. This bok has been successfully used (and is still being used) as a standard textbook in an intro course in Data Structures at UT Austin

Prerequisites: Atleast 1 introductory programming course in any high level language (preferrably C++). A decent knowledge of C++. (no need of OOP knowledge). Reader should be prepared to seriously study this book. This is a full blown ACADEMIC book, not a tutoorial

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Read it and keep it near for reference, December 10, 2004

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This review is from: Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with C++: Walls and Mirrors (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)

This book is one of the best of its kind that I have read.
It is very descriptive and contains a lot of good examples on the subjects.
It describes the construction of a lot of the collection classes like lists, trees, queues etc. and how this is most efficiently sorted and structured.
Other subjects are graphs, the Big "O" Notation for evaluation of algorithm performance and a very good description on how and when to use recursion (The mirrors).
All subjects are described in detail with great examples.
To further test if the subjects have been understood a self-test section is at the end of each chapter (and the answers are in the back of book).
The reader of the book should have some knowledge of object-oriented design, but besides that the code is fairly easy to read.
In short it's a buy.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good down to earth data structures, March 18, 2001

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This review is from: Data Abstraction and Problem Solving With C++: Walls and Mirrors (Hardcover)

If you want to learn data structures, this book has lots of good information. In fact, my university uses this book for its data structures class. This book also uses c++ but no STL. It would be nice to have STL since we want the code to be reusable for any objects.