Data Abstraction and Problem Solving with C++: Walls and Mirrors (3rd Edition)

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Summary: too wordy, not concise
Review: This book repeats the same thing again and again, not so concise. I have the feeling of wasting my time when I read this book. no any pace....
After you spend several hours, you are still outside of topic.
Good book should save our time, not waste our time

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Summary: Excellent text for serious students.
Review: This book separates the wheat from the chaff, as far as programmers go. The fundamental data structures and algorithms covered here are items that any C++ programmer NEEDS to know to be successful, and the way it is presented is, in my opinion, quite clear. Don't start on this text until you have a strong familiarity with C++ fundamentals, however. Check yourself using the C++ Fundamentals appendix provided in the text to be sure you're clear on these. As I stated before, this text separates the wheat from the chaff, delving into the specific usage of all that C++ syntax you learned as a newbie. Newbies have trouble with this book, because it actually requires some work, and thought. Study to understand and learn, and this book and it's contents will serve you well.

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Summary: Easy to read with good code. Best C++ data structures book.
Review: This book was required reading for my second quarter C++ computer science class. Of the three data structure books I have read, this was the easiest to read. Furthermore, it has plenty of good, usable data structure code. This book is NOT for people who don't know how to program in C++. This is the BEST book I have read for learning data structures in C++. The data structure code in the other two books were not as good, because they left too many of the data structures as exercises for the reader.

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Summary: a great book on data structures
Review: This is a great book because it describes the fundamental data structures in plain english, in pseudocode and in c++. In addition, it contains great explanation of algorithm efficiency, and the analogy that is made of walls and mirrors to data abstraction and recursion helps you understand both concepts better. I would have given this book 5 stars if it had pseudocode (or c++ code) for the balancing algorithm of an AVL tree.

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Summary: Excellent book, no doubt!
Review: This is a great book! Not for novices in C++, but if you already know the fundamentals of the language, this book will be great to learn data structures. Excellent book, indeed.

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Summary: Excellent Book for Data Structures
Review: This is the best book i ever found on data structures.It starts from the real english language and moves on to the pseudocode and c++ code efficiently.The algorithms are real good.Many real world examples are given.The book is certainly worth its price.

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Summary: This book is unworthy of even the one star
Review: We used this book for a data structures class and the teacher tought directly out of this book. When trying to complete programs it is hard to use the sample code because it is mostly in pseudocode. The code that is there is all ADTs and is not explained very well at all. I know that there has to be better books that this junk to cover the subject matter.