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Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in Java
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Author: Mark Allen Weiss
List Price: $107.00
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ISBN: 0201357542
Publisher: Peachpit Press (01 October, 1998)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 83,611
Average Customer Rating: 3.43 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 2 out of 5
Good for professors, bad for students
All of the practical algorithms are left as un-answered exercises! Great in depth discussion of introductory algorithms, but very few examples, mostly pseudo-code. INFURIATING FOR INDEPENDENT STUDY, but good if you have a professor to explain everything as you go.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Knowledge is Power and Painful, too
Well, I have to admit I did not expect much from this book. But to my overly pleasant surprise, I found this volume quite useful both as a resource for algorhythms and data processing...Forget the Bible, this is the only book one truly needs. And it's fun to say "Java." Amen.
Rating: 2 out of 5
somewhat useless
This book is next to useless, because of its superficial approach to almost any topic it covers. You would be hard-pressed to find a single data structure, clearly presented and explained conceptually and with examples. Many times the author would skip on the concept and would attempt to explain to you something, from the start based on examples, which would be represented by the start point and the end point with no explanation in between.I would understand if the author would omit some topics based on the premise that students should already know them, but instead he chooses to contain everything( and as a result contain nothing in particular). On the other hand in more "advanced" topic sections it is not unusual to find statements of the sort "beyond the scope of this book". Which leads me (and many others) to ask, what is the scope of this book?
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