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Data Structures and Program Design in C++ [Hardcover]

Robert L. Kruse (Author), Alex Ryba (Author)

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Hardcover: 717 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (Oct 3 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0137689950
ISBN-13: 978-0137689958
Product Dimensions: 24.5 x 19.7 x 3.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.3 Kg

Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #712,398 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #42 in Books > Computers & Internet > Programming > Algorithms > Data Structures

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In a surprisingly lively textbook-style treatment, Data Structures and Program Design in C++ delivers expertise and plenty of sample programs for the working C++ programmer or computer science student.

While some books on data structures stress theory and mathematical concepts over real-world sample code, this guide illustrates its tour of data structures--such as stacks, lists, queues, trees, and graphs--with clear, engaging samples. Throughout, the authors make use of built-in C++ features (such as the Standard Template Library [STL] and templates) where appropriate.

Early chapters use such interesting examples as Conway's Game of Life, chess and game programming, a simple calculator, and an airport simulation. Along the way, the reader will learn about lists, stacks, and queues.

In later chapters, covering thornier topics such as sorting algorithms, trees, and graphs, the authors do not skimp on the mathematical underpinnings for measuring efficiency. Instead, they take extreme care to introduce everything required to understand such conventions as the "Big O" notation and principles of logarithms.

The book closes with a case study that combines several data structures and strategies. (The example, a Polish notation expression parser, is a difficult and common real-world sample.) -- Richard Dragan

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Progressing from the concrete to the abstract — and using numerous, substantial case studies and sample programs — this book explores structured problem solving, data abstraction, software engineering principles, and the comparative analysis of algorithms as fundamental tools of program design. The book and all programs have been completely written from the Object-Oriented perspective. Uses the C++ programming language throughout. Briefly reviews the syntax of C++ and provides a brief introduction to the language. The book is native C++ making full use of C++ features and object-oriented programming. Discusses major principles of software engineering and applies them to large programming projects. Covers several more advanced, modern topics, e.g.: Splay trees, Red-black trees, Amortized algorithm analysis.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Isnt there any option for "zero" star to rate a book?, Sep 14 2007

Sandy (Montreal, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Data Structures and Program Design In C (Paperback)

This book is a piece of sh** in mix colors dissipated by d authors...its one of those books saying "oh im from a good academic env!!..." and all that crap...not 4 ppl who really wanna apply DS in practical programming....code snippets then out of nowhere exercise questions which cannot b comprehended by normal inference from the text....i dnt know wat those 3 morons where trying 2 prove....thank god i bought John Hubbard's book of DS in Java...it does hav some errors in it...but at least it covers everything and gives a sense of satisfaction while reading and going thru d exercise......

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1.0 out of 5 stars Programming Book from Hell, May 7 2004

Juan A. Morales Jr. (Hawaii United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Data Structures and Program Design In C (Paperback)

This book is horrible. It's badly written code wise and also in a literary sense. The author takes good examples and ruins them. Also he makes up his own terms to replace supposedly bad ones. The code is poorly written and contradicts the authors supposed "style." He make use of breaks when ever possible, and then tells you that the use of breaks is not good practice. He also typedef's beyond reason. I would strongly recommending NOT buying this book. I unfortunately had an equally idioic teacher who requried this book.. be warned steer clear.

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1.0 out of 5 stars needs thorough revision and update, Oct 9 2002

Aman_M "Aman_M" (Charlotte, NC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Data Structures and Program Design in C++ (Hardcover)

I agree with the reviews on this book...this book is really a bad choice for an ADT class ....there are no complete code examples, everything is in parts, and the author does not explain how to fit these different code pieces together...apart from that if being a novice I could detect programmatic errors within the first 4 chapters, that shows how poorly written this text is...someone recommended "Data-Abstraction and Problem Solving in C++" by Carrano, and boy, it was a life saver....the carrano text is probably the best written ADT book available.....

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5.0 out of 5 stars best book on data structures available
The previous Pascal edition of this book was extremely readable and what I learned data structures from. Read more

Published on July 27 2002 by Jeffrey Hsu

1.0 out of 5 stars This book Sucks and Blows at the same time.
The author wrote this to feel smarter than the reader. It should have been called "Stroking my Ego" by Robert Kruse. The concepts are lost in a sea of algorithms. Read more

Published on April 7 2002