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Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis

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this book provides a concise and fundamental look into algorithms. Excellent book if you want to learn performance time and running time on your written code and gives you the technique to speed up your code. It does not focus too much on what kind of programming language you use and it is to be read in a general sense.

I gave four stars because the author did a very good job of explaining algorithms. For example, he did a fantastic job of explaining the conversion of Infix Notation to Postfix Notation. Very nice to see a graphical step-by-step approach. Another good area was his break down of explaining how to derive the solution from a postfix equation. Again, nice usage of illustration step-by-step. I did not understand other author's datastructure book, but I did understand this one. I picked up this book only to learn Polish calculators (postfix/infix). Therefore, I did not read the other chapters. If the remaining chapters are as easily understandable as these two chapters, then I'll give 5 stars.

I took a data strutures course that used this book. First you have to know C, not C++. You will be dealing with structs not classes. Know your pointers very well. The algorithms are covered are the general ones found in most textbooks dealing with algorithm analysis, but the examples provided are not complete and very vague. You have to rely completely on your instructor to spoon feed you the explanation and if your instructor sucks, then you are out of luck. There are much better textbooks, that take the time to give full explanations of the various interesting data structures out there. God bless and good luck to you if you are using this one for a DS course.

This book is not meant for the beginner and intermediate programer. The author intended this book for the elite. Don't buy this book if you don't have a background in Discrete Math or have Master the c language. Wouldn't not recommend this book to colleges who have a Data Structures class for undergraduates. The code in the book assumes that you can piece together the individual functions to write a full program in c. Also There is no problems that a student can try on his/her own and then find the answer in back of book.