Data Structures in C++: Using the Standard Template Library (STL) [Paperback]

Timothy Budd (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0201308797 | ISBN-13: 978-0201308792 | Publication Date: August 30, 1997 | Edition: 1

Timothy Budd takes an exciting new approach to teaching data structures by incorporating the power of the Standard Template Library (STL). This book represents a reversal of the traditional presentation. Before concentrating on writing programs, Dr. Budd emphasizes how to use a standard abstraction. Working with this standard library, students will master the fundamentals of data structures and learn the power of C++, allowing them to carry their knowledge to later courses and into their careers. While the major topics have remained similar to the author's earlier book, Classic Data Structures in C++, the implementations have been completely revised. Since data structures are assumed to exist in the programming environment from the start, the presence of the STL permits reordering of topics within each chapter.

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Timothy Budd takes an exciting new approach to teaching data structures by incorporating the power of the Standard Template Library (STL). This book represents a reversal of the traditional presentation. Before concentrating on writing programs, Dr. Budd emphasizes how to use a standard abstraction. Working with this standard library, students will master the fundamentals of data structures and learn the power of C++, allowing them to carry their knowledge to later courses and into their careers.

While the major topics have remained similar to the author's earlier book, Classic Data Structures in C++, the implementations have been completely revised. Since data structures are assumed to exist in the programming environment from the start, the presence of the STL permits reordering of topics within each chapter. Data Structures in C++ Using the STL. begins each new data structure by describing a typical use of the data structure. Dr. Budd then typically gives an overview of all the operations of the data structure, and only lastly presents an implementation. The implementations are, in most cases, simplified from the standard library versions.

Highlights

• Teaches data structures in the context of the C++ Standard Template Library
• Instructs the use of analysis techniques with which to evaluate algorithms
• Provides examples of modern software engineering principles and techniques, including object-oriented programming
• Introduces the proper use of various features of the C++ programming language

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About the Author

Timothy A. Budd is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Oregon State University. Budd received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Western Washington University, and his masters and doctorate degrees in computer science from Yale University. His research interests include multi-paradigm programming languages, programming environments, compiler implementation and optimization techniques.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 576 pages
• Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (August 30, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0201308797
• ISBN-13: 978-0201308792
• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.7 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #201,788 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A basic qualitative book for data structures but that is it., November 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Data Structures in C++: Using the Standard Template Library (STL) (Paperback)

I am currently taken a Data Structures course and this is the textbook being used at the university. The book gives basic qualitative understanding of data structures. The answers to the questions and excersizes at the end of each chapter are missing {at least provide the answers to odd ones like other texts}. Standard Templates are given however, Microsoft Visual C++ products do no compile examples without some tweaking. This book seems to be geared to the Borland compiler. The are errors in the coding and text explainations. The authur uses the same name for functions and iterators in the examples which makes learning a little more difficult. I using another book to augment my learning.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Intro to the STL, May 16, 2000

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Andrew Bishop (Redmond, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Data Structures in C++: Using the Standard Template Library (STL) (Paperback)

I used this book in a Data Structures course, and it turned out to go pretty well. It covers all of the data structures in the STL (vectors, queues, strings, lists, etc.) in addition to some things not implemented (trees, hashes, etc.).

The nice thing about this book is for each data structure, it broke it up into two sections. A look at how it was implemented in the STL and also a look at the interface and how to use it, along with examples. In our course, we focused on how to use it (why reinvent the wheel), but it was nice to know how it works as well.

Budd also provides a nice quick sheet for each structure so when you are writing programs, you can refer to it and know immediately how to use that structure.

Be forewarned, some of his code has errors. You can download fixes for some at his website (listed in the book). Not all code has fixes on his website, but you should be able to fix them yourself after reading the book.

One final note, I was able to use most of the code in this book with both MS Visual C++ 5 and Borland C++ 5 with only minor modifications.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This is a worthless book !, March 21, 2000

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Elrid Trouka (Hjugard, Letland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Data Structures in C++: Using the Standard Template Library (STL) (Paperback)

We have used this book at our University, but it doesn't provide any answers, actually it gives more bugs than answers ! I advise NOT to buy this book, there are other books out there which are a lot better !