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Summary: get away from this BOOK
Review: because of my limited english, i never write any review before. however, as i found this book,i feel that i must comment it for other's benefit. this book is the worst i ever studied. it's very confusing. after reading it, it only taught me to hate c programming.
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Summary: Quite possibly the worst computer book i've used..
Review: Being a CS student, this was a text in a required class at school. TSIA (title says it all). The programming examples are riddled with errors, new topics are brief and cryptic. Stay as far away from this book as you can.
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Summary: EXCELLENT!!!!!!!!
Review: easy to understand for beginners, makes ALOT of sense! thank you for writing this book! though i wish there was a way to contact the authors to congratulate them on their excellent book
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Summary: Your professor is Dr. Stalin if s/he uses this book.
Review: First, this author uses his own libraries instead of the convential STL classes. You can learn the theory, but you probably won't be able to apply it to practical real-world programming. Second, the code is fragmented, which means it appears in little pieces and portions throughout the chapter. If you're using this book for a class, most likely you'll have to compile the examples from the chapters--which is a nightmare, especially since they leave out many important lines. Third, the book examples are riddled with superfluous typedefs and code. Fourth, in high school, we went with a book that got us to doing binary trees in nine weeks. However, in college, this book confused the class so much, the teacher couldn't get the class past chapter five or six... well before binary trees. The only thing this book is good for tiolet paper in an emergency...
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Summary: needs thorough revision and update
Review: 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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Summary: Be careful
Review: I find a lot of bugs of the logic of the examples in this book, so you must be careful this book is not a bible, instead of this , there is a lot of good stuff.
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Summary: Poorly Organized and confusing
Review: I greatly regret forcing this text on my students. This course is the first exposure to such difficult concepts as recursion, double pointers, and ADT's; and to present this material with a text so poorly organized has been a travesty. The material may be accurate, but piecing it together into a cohesive whole has required more work on my part than if I had used no text at all. To make matters worse, the code supplied is buggy and documented poorly or not at all. DO NOT USE THIS TEXT!
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Summary: Stay away from this book!
Review: I'm a computer science major at a university and unfortunately I have to spend the rest of this semester with this book! This book is horrible! The code is ill documented and difficult to understand, many of the functions written in earlier chapters get referenced in later chapters without note, and the binding of my copy completely fell apart in less than a month! I strongly urge anyone reading this review to think twice about purchasing this book. If you really need a data structures book check out the one written by Nell Dale.
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Summary: A good argument for burning books
Review: I'm no stranger to reading CS books-- prior to entering the University, I taught myself the C language and became quite adept with it. I've seen good books and not-so-good books, but I have to say, Kruse's book is the worst of the worst. His code is confusing and fragmented, and I believe he could have done a better job with documentation. Bottom line: stay away from this book.
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Summary: Intro to Data Structures for an intermediate programmer
Review: If you're an intermediate C++ programmer, then this book presents data structues in a very clear way with some of the very best graphics I've ever seen in a textbook. Each chapter concludes with very good exercises, and a thoroughly described advanced reading lists (excellent feature). Probably not detailed enough for an advanced student, but I really enjoyed studying with this book. Thank you very much to the authors!
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