From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
Subject: Re: Good book(s) on data structures?
Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 10:47:33 +0000
Date: 2010-05-17T10:47:33+00:00 [thread overview]
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On Fri, 14 May 2010, Martin sent:
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|"On May 14, 9:23 am, aprogram...@nospam.org wrote: |
|> Hi, |
|> |
|> Can anyone recommend a good book or books on data structures? I couldn't |
|> find an obvious news group to post in, but given Ada and Ada people have a |
|> software-engineering approach lacking in many other communities I figured |
|> to ask here. |
|> |
|> I understand and have implemented things like stacks, queues, and |
|> linked-lists in various projects. I never learned about data structures |
|> such as trees, and I'm sure there are many more I don't know about. I'm not|
|> interested in theory for the sake of theory, since I'm a practising |
|> software designer. What I am interested in is having the right kit of tools|
|> so I can apply the correct solution to the job. So I need good, practical |
|> sources rather than mathematical. I'm concerned about things such as |
|> clarity and performance in the code I write. |
|> |
|> I prefer to stay away from books choosing this or that programming language|
|> as the lexicon, although books in Ada would be acceptable because of Ada's |
|> clarity. Thanks for any and all suggestions. |
|> |
|> Cheers. |
| |
|Although neither is specific to Ada, |
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|Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein" |
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Despite having waffle and mathematics, that is a good book overall
with a large quantity of algorithms.
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|"and |
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|Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs by Wirth |
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|are both excellent. CLRS's is positively encyclopedic, while Wirth's |
|is an all time classic. |
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|Both available via Amazon, eBay or even book shops!! |
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|HTH |
|-- Martin" |
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A newer version was available for gratis on Wirth's website. I have
not read any version thereof.
Though it had a fake language based on Java without exceptions, the
third edition of "Computer Algorithms: Introduction to Design &
Analysis" by Sara Baase and Allen Van Gelder, published by Addison
Wesley, was very good.
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-14 8:23 Good book(s) on data structures? aprogrammer
2010-05-14 11:22 ` Phil Thornley
2010-05-14 12:22 ` Martin
2010-05-17 10:47 ` Colin Paul Gloster [this message]
2010-05-17 16:10 ` aprogrammer
2010-05-17 10:09 ` Ludovic Brenta
2010-05-17 14:35 ` Mark Lorenzen
2010-05-17 16:21 ` tmoran
2010-05-17 17:13 ` aprogrammer
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