Data Structures and Algorithms in C++ (Paperback)

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* Provides a comprehensive introduction to data structures and algorithms, including their design, analysis, and implementation
* Each data structure is presented using ADTs and their respective implementations
* Helps provide an understanding of the wide spectrum of skills ranging from sound algorithm and data structure design to efficient implementation and coding of these designs in C++
Wiley Higher Education

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See it, learn it, do it...

With Goodrich, Tamassia & Mount's highly visual, applied approach to data structures and algorithms--now in C++!

Building on the extraordinary success of Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, 2/e, Michael Goodrich and Roberto Tamassia, together with C++ authority David Mount, bring you a new text covering data structures in C++. With this book, you will find a true C++ text, rather than a book translated from Java. Both the programming code and the appropriate concepts have been rewritten.

DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS IN C++ helps you develop a wide spectrum of valuable skills, ranging from sound algorithm and data structure design, to effective application of analysis techniques, to clean and efficient implementation and coding of design in C++. The authors' highly visual, applied approach and extensive suite of Web-based learning tools give you the opportunity to see visual justifications of key analytic concepts, learn about the most recent advances in the field, and actually do program design using data structures.

FEATURES Presents a consistent object-oriented perspective. Design patterns provide clear approaches for developing programs. "Visual Proofs" help you better understand complex analytic concepts. Animations on the text's Web site visually illustrate data structures and algorithms. Exercises offer numerous opportunities for hands-on learning at various level of rigor. The author's exceptionally clear writing style helps you understand even the most difficult mathematical concepts. Emphasizes the practical application of the latest software engineering practices. - C++ code examples
- Algorithm visualization tools that illustrate key concepts
- Searchable database of additional exercises
- A "Hint Server" that gives students help (but not answers) for problems in the text

Product Details

• Paperback: 704 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (February 26, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471202088
• ISBN-13: 978-0471202080
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #495,581 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst DSA book ever written!, March 1, 2005

By	Ali Civril (Troy, NY USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is one of the dozens of Data Structures and Algorithms books in the market and till now the worst I've ever seen. I have taken two DSA courses in my undergrad years, and now as a grad, I'm TAing that course.

The theoretical treatment of the book is superficial and too childish. Yet, there's too little practical value. They discuss the unnecessary linked list implementations of trees which is quite confusing for students. I am also amazed that they do not mention finding or removing an element in a BST. And, more importantly there's too little discussion of graphs.

I don't understand those professors trying to bog down students with useless details and complicated C++ codes. Rather, they should give the intuition and the theory behind the data structures and algorithms. Weiss' book is much better than this one. But, even that is obsessed with doing tricky things with C++.

Anyway, to sum up: This book is a garbage. Stay away unless it's required for the course you're taking in case you may need to do homeworks and such.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars terrible book, incomplete examples, very confusing, January 27, 2004

By	J. Miller "neonprimetime" (Oshkosh, WI United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

As a graduate student and a teacher's assistant to the Data Structures course at U of Iowa, I found this book to be a terrible choice, it has incomplete and very breif examples that just leave the students confused...and for future note, the following semester the text was changed...

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I would give it 0 stars if I could, July 23, 2005

By	SDuermyer (Alden, NY USA) - See all my reviews

This is a very frustrating book. The writing is horrible, there are no sample exercises in the book so when you go to do an assignment from the exercises, there is no example of how to approach the problem. There is a "hint database" on their online website that gives you one line of how to approach a problem, but even that is hit or miss and can make things even more confusing. In short, I didn't learn any more about data structures than I didn't already know from my previous courses.
If you are looking for a book that explains things in a much better format, look for the Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C++ by Weiss. It explains things so much better.
Don't waste your money on this, and if you have to buy it for a class, definitely buy used. I'm selling mine back to the school bookstore!!