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Handbook of Data Structures and Applications (Chapman & Hall/CRC Computer & Information Science Series)

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This is a very useful book to have. It looks to me that the book is a compilation of various research papers by different authors. Provides a unique view to Data structures and their applications.

In CRC's usual comprehensive way, the editors have compiled a set of papers that describe many types of data structures likely to be needed by a programmer.

The text starts with trees and graphs. Then goes on to heaps, priority queues and general purpose queues. And then to hash tables and search trees. The latter are shown to be importantly different from generic trees. Naturally, B and B* trees also come into the picture.

More complex structures that arise out of the multidimensional nature of data are also investigated.

The typical chapter can be a little terse if you have not encountered its ideas before. The book is best suited to someone also well versed in data structures, and who needs a solid reference manual.

I used this book in an advanced data structures course. Unfortunately, this book is way too mathematical and very terse. All the pseudocode, if you could call it that, was more of a mathematical language than it was a computer-like language. This is definitely a reference book and is not the kind you read through. All-in-all, don't pay too much for it, but it could come in handy.