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In this text for a single-semester undergraduate course, or for self-study by technical professionals, Shaffer (computer science, Virginia Tech) discusses numerous techniques for representing data, covering most standard data structures. He writes the programming examples in Java, and appends a description of the Java syntax and concepts needed to understand the program examples. Assumes two semesters of experience in a structured programming language, such as Pascal or C. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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The author, Cliff Shaffer provides a superior learning tool for those who desire more rigorous data structures and an algorithm analysis book utilizing Java. While the author covers most of the standard data structures, he concentrates on teaching the principles required to select or design a data structure that will best solve a problem. The emphasis is on data structures, and algorithm analysis, not teaching Java. Java is utilized strictly as a tool to illustrate data structures concepts and only the minimal, useful subset of Java is included.
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