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Summary: For beginners in C++ Data Structures
Review: Actually this book is nice. This is the only book I use to learn STL C++ beside the Stroustrup's book. But, the only reason I bought this book was that this was the only STL book available in my local bookshop...;-)I am really irritating in the way the author targets the readers. If you have programmed using C++ before, this book is NOT for you. This is really for second year Computer Science student who learns Basic Data Structures (List, Tree, etc.). It would be too slow for you and not give you much information. Sorting algorithm, binary tree implementation, and other data stuctures and algorithms are covered too much for an STL book, but too little for a data structures book. And finally, the price is too high. My suggestion is if you really love data structures and algorithm , buy other data structures and algorithm book (not this one), if you really want to dive deeply to STL C++ , buy other C++ books. If you would like to do both, maybe this book is for you. I do not give this book 2 stars because this book has also useful information and I put this book on my shelf too, just beside the Stroustrup book.I do refer to this book more than the other one because I could only access to the French version of the Stroustrup book...;-)
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Summary: NO ANSWERS PROVIDED FOR ANY OF THE QUESTIONS IN THE TEXT.
Review: For those of us who rely on answers to help us tell if we are on the right track or not, this book isn't the right one for me.
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Summary: A basic qualitative book for data structures but that is it.
Review: I am currently taken a Data Structures course and this is the textbook being used at the university. The book gives basic qualitative understanding of data structures. The answers to the questions and excersizes at the end of each chapter are missing {at least provide the answers to odd ones like other texts}. Standard Templates are given however, Microsoft Visual C++ products do no compile examples without some tweaking. This book seems to be geared to the Borland compiler. The are errors in the coding and text explainations. The authur uses the same name for functions and iterators in the examples which makes learning a little more difficult. I using another book to augment my learning.
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Summary: A good start for a newcomer to STL and C++
Review: I bought this as soon as it came out. The data structures were a review to me, and might as well be too many who may read it. The code is simple, but it's a great way to get into STL and make one a confident designer and user of STL like iterators and such.
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Summary: This is not what I expected
Review: I think that this book is very breif on the discussion of data structures. I am currently taking a course in Data Structures and I guess If you are looking for a book that just defines Data Structures but If you want to get an in depth knowledge on how the actual structures work and look I would certainly not recommend this book.
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Summary: Bad, Very Bad. DON'T buy it
Review: I thought this book would tell me how to use the STL, it didn't. If you just look at the summary of the operations you can use with list there isn't a single word about what the operations returns if they give something in return
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Summary: Good Intro to the STL
Review: I used this book in a Data Structures course, and it turned out to go pretty well. It covers all of the data structures in the STL (vectors, queues, strings, lists, etc.) in addition to some things not implemented (trees, hashes, etc.). The nice thing about this book is for each data structure, it broke it up into two sections. A look at how it was implemented in the STL and also a look at the interface and how to use it, along with examples. In our course, we focused on how to use it (why reinvent the wheel), but it was nice to know how it works as well. Budd also provides a nice quick sheet for each structure so when you are writing programs, you can refer to it and know immediately how to use that structure. Be forewarned, some of his code has errors. You can download fixes for some at his website (listed in the book). Not all code has fixes on his website, but you should be able to fix them yourself after reading the book. One final note, I was able to use most of the code in this book with both MS Visual C++ 5 and Borland C++ 5 with only minor modifications.
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Summary: Good Intro to the STL
Review: I used this book in a Data Structures course, and it turned out to go pretty well. It covers all of the data structures in the STL (vectors, queues, strings, lists, etc.) in addition to some things not implemented (trees, hashes, etc.). The nice thing about this book is for each data structure, it broke it up into two sections. A look at how it was implemented in the STL and also a look at the interface and how to use it, along with examples. In our course, we focused on how to use it (why reinvent the wheel), but it was nice to know how it works as well. Budd also provides a nice quick sheet for each structure so when you are writing programs, you can refer to it and know immediately how to use that structure. Be forewarned, some of his code has errors. You can download fixes for some at his website (listed in the book). Not all code has fixes on his website, but you should be able to fix them yourself after reading the book. One final note, I was able to use most of the code in this book with both MS Visual C++ 5 and Borland C++ 5 with only minor modifications.
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Summary: Not much about STL, but a good book on C++ data structures
Review: If you're looking for specifics about STL, then look onto another text. However I did find that this is one of the better books that describe data structures in an informative way and also backed up with easy to understand and decently designed classes (surprisingly I have found many of the code for other data structure books to be poorly written and obtuse). Doesn't go discuss some of the more interesting data structures such as RB trees, etc. If they come up with a sequel that does, I would gladly buy it. But it does cover the basics quite well.
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Summary: No good!
Review: This book did provide some usefull expamples of C++ STL, but overall it is the worst C++ book I have ever read! I only have it because it was the required text for my Data Structures class. The Index is worthless! Many poor explanitions! There are fare better books out there for STL.
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