Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis With C++

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Summary: Avoid like the plague
Review: I had this book for an undergrad data structures course. It is possibly the worst textbook I've ever had the misfortune of buying. The writing style is pompous. Most of the sample code wouldn't compile on our compiler (we were using gnu's). At least half of the time I spent on each programming assignment in this class, I spent trying to get the book's sample code to work, before I could even start building my stuff on it. In a lot of cases, I finally gave up and based my stuff on the data structures from Deitel's _C++ How to Program_, which we had used for our introductory courses, instead. Aside from the content, the design was also terrible. The figures almost never appeared on the same page with the text that referred to them. Even the proportions of the book itself, the paper, and the type faces are unpleasant. In short, this book was bad in every way I can think of.

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Summary: Disfunctional Hell bound in a tidy package
Review: This book is one of the worst text books I have ever used! It is not worth the space it takes up let alone the trees which were ruthlessly massacred to create its pages. In fact, I would like to see the book converted to pure energy in some giant nuclear explosion and fed slowly to a black hole. The following adjectives may be used to describe this book: boring, unreadable, inaccurate, illogical, non-user-friendly, unorganized, and mind-numbing. The sample programs are rediculous and do nothing to show you things you need to know. The eternal typewritten mumblings of the author drone on and on for eternity, and I would rather watch concrete cure than read this book. (Although my brain did feel like concrete when I had finished it [Not strong concrete, just an ugly gray mass of brittle defective stone]) In addition, the author continuously makes references to pipe organs and volvos, for no necessary reason, both of which I deeply despise.

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Summary: Not a good choice.
Review: This was my text book in CSE310 at Arizona State tought be Candan at the time. That class was a disaster. I was doing well but most of my friends did'nt. The problem is that the book uses ADT's in its implementations. as Junior students we are not comfortable enough with C++ to delve right in all the funky ways the ADT's are implemented. So basically we get lost and waste so much time just getting our programs to compile so we dont get to focus on the abstract aspects as the real purpose of using ADT's is supposed to be. If you are an instructor this is a bad choice for you as a text book. Your students will dislike you! We hated the book.