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Objects, Abstraction, Data Structures and Design: Using Java version 5.0

5 star:		(6)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

A reader wrote that, "this book fails to address concurrency issues". But the books title never commits this. It's about teaching data-structures using Java (correctly). And it exactly does this with great success.

Although I read it to refresh my knowledge, I enjoyed a lot as I learn the subject first time. It's CS for beginners, but not dull theory. The book explains every data-structure throughly with accompanied practical code snippets.

Three types of code is provided:
1) KW(Koffman-Wolfgang) version of the data structure implementation
2) Java Collection API version of the data structure (if it exists).
3) Data structure in praxis (sample applications)

Sample applications code are not toy code. Realistic examples such as infix-postfix conversion via stack, airline check-in passenger queues or recursive fibonacci numbers are choosen.

The book also shows how to extend Java's collections framework for advanced implementations.

Such valuable books cannot be written in a hurry. I think, especially for beginners, it would be a great start. And probably you'll never need to search an alternative if you start to learn the subject from this one.

It is the right book.

This is a book for a second-semester course in data structures. It teaches good design principles and classic data structures, while doing students a favor and using the standard Java data structures (instead of a custom library, as many other books do).

No, it doesn't teach concurrency, and neither should it--that's not a topic for second-semester CS students.

And, duh, it makes students fill in code. Hello one-star reviewer: That's how you learn computer science--by writing your own code.

got there fast and on time. would recommend to anyone. saved over 100 dollars off the campus bookstore price. ok

I bought this book for a subject I'm currently studying and have found myself reading ahead week after week, as the concepts are described in a contextual, interesting way by the author. If you need a structured teaching environment to expand on your rudimentary Java skills, this book runs you through some hard-to-understand concepts in ways a math-illiterate (like me) will comprehend in well-defined chapters.
The book itself came in mint condition, with no signs of prior use or rough handling.

This book is a very useful sources on the data structures used in the Java language. This 2nd edition of the textbook has added an extensive amount of information regarding abstraction and a much more defined explanation of the Collections framework. This is a great book of intermediate programers.

The book is easy to read and understand the concepts. I would recommend it to anyone who would like to learn Java programming!

I like this book. good explanation of different topics along with the examples. Some parts in the book need better explanation and how to implement the concept using java language.
overall, pretty good book for beginner and intermediate programmers.

Item was in good, new conidition. Arrived when it said it would. So far I'm partway in the book and I enjoyed it very much. I'm taking it for a CS at the university I'm going to.

If you are like me and learn from example this book is not for you. It gives you some of the code but leaves the more pieces out forcing you to go online and hope you can find what you need. Overall I found this book to be a waste of my money.

This book is fantastic at going over topics in verbose and excruciating detail, but never shows you how to put the pieces together and use them. I'm on the linked list section, I understand everything perfectly, but to put it together and write a program with the material? I just don't know where to start. This book is too wordy and contains no examples, (well there are code snippets but these are worthless.).

I love how all the positive reviews are from people who already know this stuff, they don't understand how crappy this book for someone without prior knowledge of the book's material.

why is it so hard to just have one complete SIMPLE program with using a linked list and manipulating the nodes (I mean all class) so the reader can see, OH SO THIS IS HOW YOU IMPLEMENT IT! Waste of money, better books out there.

Also loved how an author came in and gave it 5 stars to offset the bad reviews while announcing it, real classy pal.