Programming with C++, Second Edition, is an update of the highly successful first editiona bestseller in Schaum's computer science lineand reflects the new ISO standard for C++, rendering previous C++ guides obsolete. Essential for programmers, 280,000 computer science students taking first-level classes, and thousands of advanced placement students, this book is the perfect supplement to the leading textbooks in introductory and higher-level programming courses.
is part of it. (...) I suppose the book doesn't want to go to far into C stuff. C is essential to writing clear and concise code in C++. But at the price the book is at its a good buy. I've got it.
For the person that is stuck in C programming.......2004-08-04
Who referred to this book having mistakes:
They seem to be stuck in the stone ages of C programming.
Since the new ANSI standard came out, (which compilers are still attempting to catch up to), header files have not used a .h extension, C Standard library headers have been renamed and so on.
Every negative point the person makes indicates a complete lack of knowledge, especially accurate knowledge of the C++ standard.
As such that review should be completely and utterly disregarded.
This book is definitely head and shoulders above the crap that people like Herb Schildt have been putting out.
Thanks.
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Over 119,000 computer science majors and advanced placement students enroll yearly in required Data Structures/Computer Science II classes, and C++ is the language they use. Adhering to the new ISO standard for C++ (which has rendered previous C++ guides obsolete) Schaum's presents the most up-to-date study guide on Data Structures, simplifying and demonstrating difficult concepts through solved problems and examples.
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data structure.......2003-01-14
Though a very good book, most programming assignments require
that the data be entered interactive and not implimented for
list and trees.
Good study guide, but it's no text book.......2000-05-02
Like it says, it's a study guide. Its got great problems if you want to go above and beyond what's challenged of you in class. Author presents each part in a very straight forward manner, but doesnt dive very deep in abstraction.
Schaum's Outline Programming with C++.......2000-04-14
That is very good book for new programmer learning. It is very helpfull.
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- Excellent approach to vectors, forms and things linear and integrable
- Mathematically sound without being too difficult
- Good generalization of Calculus for motivated students
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Using a dual presentation that is rigorous and comprehensive—yet exceptionaly reader-friendly in approach—this book covers most of the standard topics in multivariate calculus and an introduction to linear algebra. It focuses in underlying ideas, integrates theory and applications, offers a host of learning aids, features coverage of differential forms, and emphasizes numerical methods that highlight modern applications of mathematics. The revised and expanded content of this edition includes new discussions of functions; complex numbers; closure, interior, and boundary; orientation; forms restricted to vector spaces; expanded discussions of subsets and subspaces of R^n; probability, change of basis matrix; and more. For individuals interested in the fields of mathematics, engineering, and science—and looking for a unified approach and better understanding of vector calculus, linear algebra, and differential forms.
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Excellent approach to vectors, forms and things linear and integrable.......2007-07-12
Lots of people know vectors, even today a lots less know forms. This is a real shame because forms are simple and elementary, yet there are very few sources that introduce forms on a concrete level. The authors introduce the concepts of vectors, integration, and forms on a level that is accessible to a bright and interested high-school student.
Traditionally calculus in higher dimensions taught at an introductory level uses a vectors-only approach. This leads to considerable extra effort to account for two basic things: One is orientation, the second is how to generate higher-dimensional objects from lower-dimensional ones while keeping the same operations intact. For example how can one compute the length of a line, the area of a parallelogram or the volume of a parallelepiped (and higher dimensional version of this) in a linear context?
The answer to this are forms, and if they arise in a differential setting, differential forms. The alternating product (outer product) that calculations with forms bring automatically encode the important property of orientation. At the same time they describe what "area" would be in any dimensions, and if one takes infinitesimal versions of these how to integrate them together to areas of differentiable manifolds.
This book does all this right. It introduces forms in a straight forward way, gives pictures that shows how they look, gives geometric interpretations of computations (like the simple, yet all too rarely taught fact that the determinant of a square matrix is the volume of the vectors making up the matrix). Readers with this knowledge will suddenly have a deep understanding why one gets a determinant when one changes variables in integration!
For anybody who wants to have a good foundation for differential geometry, have a better understanding of vector calculus than most other/older text on the topic contain, or just wanted to know what those forms really are that geometers in more advanced texts just define algebraically, this is at present the best text I know to learn this.
There are other texts (though not too many) that attempt at giving elementary treatments of vector calculus and forms. For example William Burke's "Applied Differential Geometry" is one such text, which also contains graphical representation of forms. By taking a more computational approach the present text does, I think a better job, in clarifying forms in application. Another text would be for example Harvey Flanders' "Differential Forms with Applications to the Physical Sciences". This is a considerably more advanced text than Hubbard's and lacks many elementary foundations and basic geometric properties that Hubbard lays out quite nicely. People interested in electromagnetical applications but also just lots of visual ways of representing forms should check notes of Selfridge, Arnold and Warnick.
I have just two minor remarks. The book is filled with interesting short bios of relevant mathematicians, yet Hermann Grassmann who is primarily responsible (and chronically undercredited) for the introduction of forms is not mentioned in the text.
The second is that I disagree with Hubbard's stance (citing Dieudonne) that multivalued function are meaningless. There are in fact problems that look simpler when multivalued functions are allowed and there are ways to compute with them (branch cuts etc).
But these are minor comments that don't take anything away from this being a great text.
In all this is a beautifully written text on vector calculus, integration and differential forms that I can highly recommend to undergrads yet also graduate students and working colleagues.
I really hope that texts like these will soon be typical for introductory courses on vector calculus and integration, because this is essentially how it should be done... it should be easy to see why after reading the text.
Mathematically sound without being too difficult.......2007-05-08
This is one of the best math textbooks you'll ever find--it stresses the computational aspects of multivariable calculus and linear algebra without losing sight on the mathematical theory. Hubbard presents material that most math students wouldn't otherwise touch until analysis in a down-to-earth fashion.
The unified approach of this textbook is particularly enlightening. I am convinced that vector calculus must absolutely be taught with differential forms--there is no other way. While Hubbard's notation is clunky and unorthodox at times, compare the traditional notation of Stokes' Theorem to Hubbard's, and you will appreciate the elegance.
Good generalization of Calculus for motivated students.......2007-01-04
This book provides a good grounding in the essential topics needed to use calculus effectively. As other readers here have mentioned, the Hubbards' book presents a wide range of mathematical concepts that are very useful to develop mathematical thinking. Moreover, the material is presented in a basic level so that students just coming out of high school can easily pick up the material. Indeed, after taking one year of single variable calculus I used this book in my undergraduate class that was title "Honors Mathematics". Without it, and using the typical Stewart Multivariable book, I would have had much more difficulty adapting to the abstractness in my next year with Analysis, Algebra, and Topology.
There are some difficulties with the notation and typos, but none that can be overcome with some thought. The material is presented in such an orderly and integrated fashion that is hard not to learn from the book, regardless of your mathematical level as long as you fulfill the prerequisites (single variable calculus) and work to understand the material right off the bat.
A Pleasure to Read.......2005-12-15
First of let me state that I own the 2nd edition of this book, and that I am a doctoral student in computational physics.
After borrowing this book from the library, I read it cover to cover. I then bought a copy for myself to use as a reference. I learned a lot about the foundations of mathematics that I had not learned as a physics student. The book is very clearly written and actually enjoyable to read, with many examples, applications, and historical notes. The proofs were easy for me to follow.
Although the book is mainly concerned with multivariate calculus and linear algebra, it touches on many interesting and important matehmatical topics from set theory, topology, differential geometry, fractals, chaos, and analysis. It also provides an appendix that gives proofs for 25 of theorems that are considered harder to prove than is expected for a text of this level.
I also appreciated that the notation is thoroughly modern. (A glossary to the notation is given on the inside cover, with references to where in the book that you can find the full definition and explanation.) This may well be a drawback for many people, but for me it was very helpful because I now have an easier time reading papers on the more mathematical side of physics. Another modern aspect of this text is the introduction of differential forms, which are becoming essential to theoreticians in many branches of physics (quantum field theory, string theory, classical mechanics, and general relativity).
Lastly, this is a book on "pure mathematics", so if you are only interested in applied math, you will not like this book.
For me, it's been a great investment!
Revolutionize the way calculus is taught.......2005-05-25
This is the textbook used for the math 223/224 Theoretical Calculus and Linear Algebra sequence in Cornell University. The book is designed for prospective math students. Although the book mainly follows a rigorous development of the theories of multi-dimensional calculus, the mathematical machinery used in developing the theories is immensely broad, especially in linear algebra. The book covers most of the standard topics in a first semester linear algebra course and touches on many other areas of mathematics such as, real and complex analysis, set theory, differential geometry, integration theory, measure theory, numerical analysis, probability theory, topology, etc. The highlight of the book is its introduction of differential forms to generalize the fundamental theorems of vector calculus. The author is not the first one who follows this path. There are many other books written before this one that have similar approach, such as Calculus On Manifolds by Spivak, which was written 40 years ago and was too old to suit modern students.
The author tries hard to retain rigor and present to the readers as many examples and applications as possible. Often he tries to cover a broad range of mathematics and digresses a little. The book more or less touches on most of the areas of undergraduate mathematics curriculum and does not go into depth. It sometimes gives me the impression that the book is almost like a survey of undergradute math. The book is also not error-free. There are many typos and some technical errors. If you buy this book, make sure to get the errata from the author's website.
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• Scores of problems and examples—which will be available on the Internet after publication—simplify and demonstrate central concepts and help users develop their expertise in handling data structures in Java
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Good Quick Start for the Java Collections Framework.......2005-11-12
As an experienced programmer new to Java, I was looking for a quick introduction to the Java Collections Framework, the set of classes and interfaces for working with collections of objects. In essence, the Collections Framework gives the Java programmer a predefined set of data structures including lists, hash tables, stacks, and sets. This book fell into a nice middle ground for me. I already knew about data structures so I was not looking for a textbook. But I wanted something more than a quick reference guide, something with some examples and explanatory text. I found that "Data Structures with Java" fit my needs. As other reviewers have noted, it does contain more typos than it should. Also, I recommend obtaining a copy from your local library, I don't feel that it is a "keeper".
good intention, bad implementation.......2005-01-15
It is true, as other reader attests, that the book has many an error. However, what I don't like about the book is that the author uses the Java API to illustrate all his examples. Yes, this might be easier than to come up with a new implementation, but, is definitely not a good learning tool. I want to know what's behind each implementation so that I can abstract it in my head and apply it to other examples and problems. But for example, how is,
int[] blah = new int(50);
Array.asList(blah)l
going to teach me about turning an array into a linear list or even a string? Yeah Java has the facilities, but it's all behind the fog (API).
One other issue I have is that the author spends way too much time testing the Java API (about two chapters). And further, even as the book progresses, he keeps calling Java's internal, built-in methods and interface.
It's not a bad book for the price, but don't buy it as a substitute for a text book or even a main aid book.
Get 4th Edition.......2001-10-19
This is the first edition, and there seem to be lot of errors. The author's web site states that there is a 4th edition available. I'd wait for that one.
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This book explains how several much-decried problems in the U.S. health system--glaring gaps in the quality and efficiency of care, high rates of uninsurance, and out-of-control costs--can be resolved by empowering patients.
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A great set of proposals for discussing the critical reforms needed in our healthcare system.......2006-01-01
This short and focused book offers five suggestions to help lower our society's overall healthcare expenses, improve availability, while putting it on a more sound footing for controlling future cost growth. Discussing healthcare is a complicated issue and much of the public discussion is distorted by various kinds of self-interest, lack of knowledge about the technical aspects of the problem (both medical and economic), and different views of what the desirable outcomes would be. This one hundred-page book is a wonderful basic foundation so we can discuss the health care issues from a common ground.
Our present private health care system suffers from several market distortions that prevent efficiencies. First, it arose from a wartime wage & price controlled economy in 1942 when companies began offering "fringe benefits" since they couldn't raise wages. The next biggest problem is that what we really have is pre-paid healthcare rather than true insurance. Insurance is based on the notion of sharing risk not the notion of no-risk no cost. Imagine if we have pre-paid lunches. Wouldn't the natural inclination be to consume bigger lunches than you normally would? Maybe even combine two meals of the day? You would not want to be paying for something you weren't getting the full benefit from, so you would over consume and costs would rise. That would spur the desire for more consumption and a vicious cycle gets worse.
The notion that healthcare should be provided at no cost is pernicious. The government has no money of its own so we have to pay for our healthcare even if the government "provides" it. But worse than the payment problems this causes is the notion that we should be free to use our income on everything else but healthcare and that somehow when we use our own income for healthcare we view it as a kind of oppression. However, we use our income for many less necessary and some very foolish things. The amount of money we waste on foolish things like diet fads, pills, patent medicines, magnets & bracelets that do nothing, and various quack treatments has got to be a large fraction of our actual health care expenditure. We need to spend our money on health with greater awareness and understanding.
So, what are the five recommendations the authors make in this book?
1) Change the tax law to reduce the preference for medical-care purchases through employer-based insurance.
This is an important change because it will allow for people to make health care purchases with their own income and buy their own insurance with PRE-TAX dollars. As it is now, everything is biased towards shifting it to the employer program because anything we pay for is AFTER-TAX and therefore much more costly. Since everything is pushed to the employer pre-paid healthcare it exacerbates the over consumption problem.
2) Reform regulation markets for health insurance.
This is about lowering costs by making national insurance pools and reforming state specific regulations that add unusual costs to the insurance market through specific popular mandates. This is the suggestion I am least comfortable with, however I do understand the notion and think it is definitely worth investigating. What we don't want is a national reform that solely benefits the insurance industry shareholders at the expense of the insured the way our, say, sugar supports keep us paying four times the world price for sugar.
3) Expand provision of health information.
This has two components. The first is to limit discoverability of information that flows between organizations with the purpose of quality improvement. The second is to rate organizations and doctors in a way that provides good information to consumers of healthcare. While I like the notion in the simple abstract, the real problem with this is, for example, that not all cardiologists have the same risk profile of patient. Nor are all the same in their approach to patients. All systems of "grading" are subject to gaming and I wonder how this will be prevented in such a national system.
4) Control anticompetitive behavior by providers and insurers.
Yes, we do need real markets for market forces to do their work in cost containment. But, yes, businesses and businessmen (and women) do want to limit competition and enhance profits (rent seeking behavior in economic terms). So, one of the very most important things our lawmakers and regulators can do is ensure that a strong market and strong competition exists. There is evidence that hospitals and insurers are working to limit competition and using their influence with lawmakers to strengthen their position and raise costs. This is quite important.
5) Reform the malpractice system.
There is no question that the lottery approach to non-economic damages has driven up insurance costs to the point that access to health care providers in some states is impaired. We definitely need to control non-economic costs of malpractice lawsuits. The other aspect of reform, since these kinds of mistakes are well known and the process well understood, is to do what we can in holding down legal costs. This is fought tooth and nail by trial lawyers because they make tens of millions of dollars from these lawsuits. However, those tens of millions of dollars going to lawyers do not help the healthcare of anyone except the lawyers and the families and their employees.
You can see that I have difficulties with some aspects of the proposals in this book and you will likely have some of your own. However, I think they make a great place to start the discussion we must have for the reform that will come one way or the other. I just hope we have the will to make it a strong, active, and constructive reform rather than a passive contraction that will do much more harm than good.
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In 1903 Leonidas Hubbard set out to cross the Ungava-Labrador Peninsula, and to forge a name for himself as an adventure writer. He took a friend, a guide, a canoe, a ton of equipment, and scads of naive hope. Months later, the friend and guide staggered out of the snow, and Hubbard starved to death in his tent, too weak to attempt the 30-mile trek to safety. And that's just Part I. James West Davidson and John Rugge narrate with simple dignity, making vividly tangible the wretchedness of mosquitoes, the panic of no food, and the rocky tangle of the Labrador wilderness.
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In 1903 Leonidas Hubbard was commissioned by an outdoors magazine to explore Labrador by canoe. Joined by his best friend, Dillon Wallace, and a Scots-Cree guide, George Elson, Hubbard hoped to make a name for himself as an adventurer. But plagued by poor judgment and bad luck, his party
turned back and Hubbard died of starvation just thirty miles from camp. Two years later, Hubbard's widow, Mina, and Wallace returned to Labrador, leading rival expeditions to complete the original trek and fix blame for the earlier failure. Their race made headlines from New York to Nova
Scotia-and it makes fascinating reading today in this widely acclaimed reconstruction of the epic saga. The authors draw on contemporary accounts and their own journeys in Labrador to evoke the intense drama to men and women pushed beyond the limits of endurance in one of the great true adventures
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S.K. Lapius.......2006-08-12
This is a great read. There is little written about this turn of the century, "last frontier" of North America where even today natives will tell you that you can't get there from here. The grueling hardship and trajedy are well portrayed - as are the portraits of each individual. It truly takes the 3 books written about this seminal journey and adds information from the diaries and other writings of the various figures involved; and, this is artfully done by shifting voices. The book flows well and holds suspense to a surprising degree even to those who know the eventual outcome.
Good adventure story.......2005-03-06
This book tells the story of two expeditions across Labrador. The first took place in 1903 by three men, on which one of them, Leonidas Hubbard, died. Three years later, his wife, Mina, made the same journey successfully. These accounts are well written and make good use of the original journals.
Annoying novelistic style.......2004-04-03
As you can see from other reviews, most people seem to really like this book. I, however, got a few pages in and found I had no use for it, even though I generally go for just this sort of story. The authors of "Great Heart" use a novelistic narrative style, filling in from their imagination all manner of little details that they obviously could have no way of knowing. I'm apparently enough of a purist that I want my narratives based on reliable source material, not imagination. When an author begins to fictionalize, how can one ever know where the boundary between fact and fiction lies? This doesn't seem to have bothered most of the reviewers, but you might want to stay away from the book if you're similarly picky.
Great book.......2003-09-14
Excellent read - hard to put it down.
A First Rate Wilderness Adventure with a Twist!.......2000-11-01
This is a fabulous narrative of a wilderness adventure, like many others filled with the hazards adventurers encounter when they stray far from home. What makes the story unique is not a side-bar intrigue of romance and mystery but a deep underlying question about human motivation, relationships and dreams - as lived through the minds and bodies of the adventurous. The story is told with skill and grace - and is spellbinding.
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Introduced by Sun Microsystems in 1995, Java transformed the way people use the Internet. This up-to-the-minute study guide on programming with Java simplifies and demonstrates the central concepts of the program through examples and solved problems. Updated to reflect the newest version of Java, Schaum's Outline of Programming with Java, Second Edition addresses the program's new data structures and language additions. The book supports the major computer textbooks being used in college classrooms across the country.
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Not a good source for learning Java.......2006-06-04
This Schaum's outline really disappoints me. First of all, it doesn't even come close to the typical Schaum's formula - some theory, some worked examples, some exercises with solutions, some additional unsolved exercises. I would expect some deviation from the formula on a Schaum's outline that is about a programming language, but the biggest problem in this outline is the complete absence of programming exercises. It is impossible to know if you understand a programming language if you cannot come up with a program that works yourself. Also, the instruction part of the Schaum's is not detailed enough to really "get" the material. Especially flimsy is any material on event handling in Java. This is tricky material to explain to a Java newbie, but it is essential, since otherwise a user really has no way to interact with a Java program. I suggest if you want to learn Java that you pick up either "Head First Java" or "Core Java", and skip this outline completely. I give it two stars only because, even though I found a few errors in the code here and there, there is nothing really wrong with the facts given or the examples presented, even though they are not helpful to the end task of learning Java.
Advanced.......2006-03-10
I would say add the word advanced to the title. I am a beginner and the way Schaum's Outlined Java is for people who already have a knowledge of the basics but I have to say Schaum's books are never bad books. This one is just not titled correctly. Thanks
lacks exercises.......2005-10-02
The book offers a quick ramp up into Java coding. It chooses to omit many descriptions of graphics classes. The focus is on the pure computational classes. You can get a fast understanding of the core of these classes. Enough to write simple programs. While 1 chapter is about graphics, it is very skimpy and you should not be encouraged to learn from it.
A shortcoming is the lack of exercise sets. Schaum's books are often replete with these. Here, no less than in other topics, exercises are needed. The cover is somewhat misleading. It says fully solved exercises are present. Indeed. But what is also needed are exercises that are NOT fully solved.
Great content but poor organisation.......2005-04-30
Earlier I had purchased Hubbard's C++ and had no complaints.But this book by the same author leaves much to be desired. The explanations are well written, ...typically Hubbard style, but I was very dissapointed by the way the examples and the chapters were organised in the book. A newcomer who is learning example by example and from chapter to chapter is bound to get confused. In an earlier chapter, an example uses try and catch block to take an input from the user, but the mechanism of try and catch blocks are explained much later in the book. So this book is basically for those who are already conversant with Java and just needs a good brushing-up. If you are new to Java, use this book as a supplement rather than your main text. The examples in the book are excellent and fun to try out.
A piece of fiction!.......2003-10-04
This is the worst waste of eight dollars I have ever spent. It should be placed with the fiction titles instead of the computer ones.
The text constantly references fields and objects that don't exist in the example code, the code is totally messed up. For instance "j;+" and "j+;" do not increment the field. it should be "j++". I can understand having mistakes but this book is filled with them. This book is a mistake. There are two separate pieces of code that are supposed to be different but are identical. items referenced in example code don't exist.
I could go on and on about this piece of ****. Reading this book made me angry. If a student were to use this book before taking a test they would certainly fail.
The editor and authors must have been near comatose from cocaine when working on this pulp.
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One of the most complex mysteries in world history is the assassination of President John Kennedy. More than thirty years after his death we still don't know what really happened. From careful research using over 25 sources and over a span of more than fifteen years the author, formerly employed by the Central Intelligence Agency, has selected 501 questions, both frequently asked and one-of-a-kind. Examples: What prominent world-figure claimed to not remember where he was on the day of the murder? What was deleted to cause the 18-minute gap on the Watergate tape? Why did Jacqueline Kennedy climb out onto the trunk of the limousine? What were the odds against 18 material witnesses being dead within 39 months of the assassination?
Written in easy-to-read stle this book asks, then answers the questions and ends by giving the reference to which the reader wishing more information may go. One-hundred and fifty photographs of people and scenes involved with the Kennedy murder add interest to the book.
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Exceptional book. Extrordinary Research!.......2004-07-01
What at first seems to be just another "JFK - what really happened book", turns out to be one of the best investigative pieces of research I've seen on the subject.
The power lies in the questions. The realization that something really corrupt and unspeakable happened in this country is hammered home with a simple yes or no answer determined by indepth research. The implications of those involved is chilling.
I've seen the JKF movies and read a few books and remember when the asassination was announced. Information I've never heard before is presented in this book.
"What Really Happend", brings up facts and answers questions that will send chills up your spine. Eye opening information presented in a concise and chronological format making a complex subject and course of events more comprehensible.
This is a hard-to-find book, but well worth the search.
great great book.......2002-08-10
this book is a simple question and answer book.
it dosen't go into the assassination of JFK, but rather it answers the questions of who was this guy and what was his role.
you learn about when ex-President Jimmy Carter was giving a speech on the JFK assassination and then the tv sound just went mute. the book answers what Jackie was actually reaching over the car for and who people like Lee Bowers were and what Richard Nixon and J Edgar Hoover had to do with the JFK assassination.
this is a very simple book, but it's very informative and very well written.
has numerous photos of some of the people mentioned in the book.
great book.
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This book covers all the main data structures and algorithms reccommended by the ACM. It is current, well-written, and clearly understandable, with many illustrations, explanations, and examples of Java-based data structures. Using Java 1.4 throughout, this book covers such topics as polymorphism, simulation, abstract classes, inner classes, and reflection. For computer department and systems employees needing to learn programming concepts and Java techniques.
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Riddled with errors........2004-11-22
The overall scope of the book is perfect for a two quarter data structures class. It goes into just enough depth to teach you something new, and something useful. But if you actually try to follow code examples or try to understand a diagram, beware because there are a lot of errors in them. Every chapter has at least two errors. Problem is, we are supposed to be learning something new and if the diagrams can't explain the situation correctly how can we not help but be confused. Don't buy this book unless you have to have it for a class, there are better books.
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