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Author/s : Jim Keogh, Ken Davidson
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Osborne
Category : Other
Review by : Matthew Phillips
Rating : 4 horseshoes</pre>
I can't recommend that anyone buy this book. The good aspects of the book are far outweighed by the bad. First the good. Each chapter starts with a plain nglish description of the data structure covered. For the most part, these descriptions are really good. The exception is when both a stack and a queue are described as "first in, first out" data structures. I also like the fact that the code sections of each chapter have a
Java version and a C++ version.
Now for the bad. It appears that one author created the diagrams and the other wrote the descriptive text because they often did not match up. It caused a great deal of confusion for me because they were close enough to not disregard all together. Because of this problem the first two chapters were almost unreadable.
If there is a particular data structure that you are confused by, go to your local library or book store and read the first couple of paragraphs of the chapter on that data structure. That may make it easier to understand what you read in your primary text. If you don't know data structures, then you probably won't know them after reading this book either.
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