This book teaches the classic data structures with an informal, yet rigorous, approach; it includes the appropriate object-oriented concepts and makes use of the appropriate Java constructs.
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Nell Dale, Ph.D., University of Texas, Austin
Chip Weems, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Great in concept, poor in execution,
By Hans C. Masing (Ann Arbor, MI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Object-Oriented Data Structures In Java (Hardcover)
I teach a graduate level data structures course at a Big 10 university, and reviewed this text over the summer to use in my course. The text covers all the basics - lists, linked lists, hashes, graphs, trees, and all with good OO foundations. In my review, this book hit on all cylinders. However, I am looking at it with many, many years experience in teaching and in data structures, and frankly made the mistake of 'skimming' the book to make sure that everything I wanted to cover was in there.
Then class started... The book, while going through all the motions, fails to execute well. Diagrams have mistakes in them, algorithms are wrong, code samples don't work... I have had to do quite a bit of damage control with my class, and will not be using this book next term. I now have guilt that my students were stuck paying for this book, and can't sell it back for students in future terms. (A note to faculty - the supporting material is... OK. The test banks are mediocre, and also have errors in them, and the lecture materials contain all the errors also found in the book) So, the bottom line: All the basics are there, but this is not a winning book. Perhaps the second edition will be better?
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This review is from: Object-Oriented Data Structures Using Java (Hardcover)
The first thing that a computer science student studies is usually a programming language that becomes the foundation for future studies. Most of the programming exercises he works on are chosen to illustrate programming techniques. The book presumes that the student knows at least the basic principles of the Java language. In learning the language the student has written several programs. But he has not begun to approach real world problems that usually involve the processing of some kind of data. The main theme of the book is to familiarize the student with the techniques and procedures that have been developed to ease the processing of different types of data.
There were some complaints about errors found in the first edition. While this is regrettable, it is almost impossible to produce a book of 800+ pages without some errors creeping through the editing process. Most of the errors have been fixed. But there are still a few, one that I found more amusing rather than serious was in the address of the website dedicated to the book. It's a com domain, and the com is left off of the given address. Oh well, I certainly couldn't write a program 800 pages long that would be completely bug free.
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So far so good. This book is used for a 2nd level Computer Science class in College. The book is very detailed with pictures, instructions and examples. The 1 thing I find most useful to understand what you are learning is the scenarios and story lines they give you. Don't get me wrong Data Structure is still quite a difficult subject to learn but the book helps!
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abstract data types, list interface, formal specification, generic collections, storing objects, word frequency generator, current backward position, sorted list class, interactive test driver, current forward position, rehash function, nicely formatted string, minimum word size, minimum frequency count, unsorted part, new song list, enough operands, three list types, reason for the warning message, straight selection sort, enqueue method, prize pile, golf application, int endlndex, visit the right subtree Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Priority Queues, Total Time, Getting Organized, More Lists, Array-Based Implementations, The Implementation Level, Towers of Hanoi, Hey Jude, Java Collections Framework, The Qucuc, Reference-Based Implementations, Penny Lane, Joe's Diner, Graph Applications, Research Question, The Slack, Three-Question Approach, Collection Elements, United States, General Trivia, Last Vertex Destination Distance, Weems Appendix, Unified Method, Primary Responsibility, Software Testing Browse Sample Pages:
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abstract data types, list interface, formal specification, generic collections, storing objects, word frequency generator, current backward position, sorted list class, interactive test driver, current forward position, rehash function, nicely formatted string, minimum word size, minimum frequency count, unsorted part, new song list, enough operands, three list types, reason for the warning message, straight selection sort, enqueue method, prize pile, golf application, int endlndex, visit the right subtree Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Priority Queues, Total Time, Getting Organized, More Lists, Array-Based Implementations, The Implementation Level, Towers of Hanoi, Hey Jude, Java Collections Framework, The Qucuc, Reference-Based Implementations, Penny Lane, Joe's Diner, Graph Applications, Research Question, The Slack, Three-Question Approach, Collection Elements, United States, General Trivia, Last Vertex Destination Distance, Weems Appendix, Unified Method, Primary Responsibility, Software Testing Browse Sample Pages:
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