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Summary: Excellent Examples!
Review: This is a good book for someone who already knows some data structures. The examples are excellent and efficiently exploit the power of C++. It covers all the subjects of data structures in a somewhat concise and elegant manner. A good book to quickly review your DS concepts if you have started forgetting them. Warning: You must have a thorough understanding of C++ to read this book.
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Summary: ... poor examples
Review: This is my second time taking this class. The only reason, and I do mean the only reason why I have to retake this class is because many of the examples in the book are confusing. It just dawned on me today when I couldn't understand the Shell sort on page 256 - this is a simple concept. I had to reference another book in order to understand it and as it turns out, it was a simple concept. A second example of the confusion is the Huffman coding sequence on page 398 - I am having to go onto the internet because I just plain don't understand the example. In my personal opinion I do not feel the book is thorough enough . . . it needs to be written more simply with better diagrams and examples.
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Summary: Disgusting Book
Review: This is one of the most discussing books I've ever read. It is written in incomprehensible style. I think I will fail the course if I don't buy another one.
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Summary: Not for Intermediate Programmers
Review: This is the textbook for my undergraduate data structures class. In my opinion this book is more suited to graduate level study, or for very experienced C programmers. The author assumes that you have a very solid grounding in C language structure and discrete math, his examples are often cryptic and incomplete leaving it up to the reader to figure out what is meant. In my opinion this book is not well suited for learning the fundamentals of data structures, and I'm still looking for one that is.
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Summary: A Good "Text" Book
Review: We had this book as a text for our computer science 200 level paper "Algorithms and Data Structures".The book is a real good one, as it explains the much complicated topic of abstract data types and structures very well giving excellent examples where necessary. But, the book is really for experienced programmers of c/c++ and does not help novice programmers at all.
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Summary: A Good "Text" Book
Review: We had this book as a text for our computer science 200 level paper "Algorithms and Data Structures". The book is a real good one, as it explains the much complicated topic of abstract data types and structures very well giving excellent examples where necessary. But, the book is really for experienced programmers of c/c++ and does not help novice programmers at all.
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Summary: Let the confusion begin
Review: Weiss must think he's gods gift to C++ programming, because this book was written way beyond the level of a student trying to first learn his material. Very poorly written, confusing, with pseudocode which left the reader hanging. Definately, DO NOT buy this book unless forced to due to homework problems, for it will rot on your bookshelf for eternity, daunting you that such a book was ever even published for student use. A pity that such a distinguished professor would take the time to publish such a horrible book only to torment struggling CS students.
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Summary: Don't expect too much....
Review: Well, this books covers almost all important chapters that are needed in an Algorithm course. However, detailed explainations of algorithm analysis is totally insufficient, only one or two pages are used to explain the algorithm/theory. You can always find this book too dry for large block of words printed on a whole page -- that's scaring
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