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Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C++ (2nd Edition)
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Author: Mark Allen Weiss
List Price: $101.00
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ISBN: 0201361221
Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley (09 November, 1998)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 126,779
Average Customer Rating: 3.09 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
Beginner Beware
This book is impossible to learn from unless you know c++ like the person who wrote the language. I am using this book for my data structures class I'm in right now and it is useless. Our teacher is constantly finding things that are against normal convention. The code is very incomplete. Don't worry though, cause if you don't know c++ very very very well, you'll never even realize it. I compare his homework problems to teaching someone how to paint a bird house and then asking him how to build a skyscrapper. You should definetly avoid this book at all costs.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Let the confusion begin
Weiss must think he's gods gift to C++ programming, because this book was written way beyond the level of a student trying to first learn his material. Very poorly written, confusing, with pseudocode which left the reader hanging. Definately, DO NOT buy this book unless forced to due to homework problems, for it will rot on your bookshelf for eternity, daunting you that such a book was ever even published for student use.A pity that such a distinguished professor would take the time to publish such a horrible book only to torment struggling CS students.
Rating: 1 out of 5
... poor examples
This is my second time taking this class. The only reason, and I do mean the only reason why I have to retake this class is because many of the examples in the book are confusing. It just dawned on me today when I couldn't understand the Shell sort on page 256 - this is a simple concept. I had to reference another book in order to understand it and as it turns out, it was a simple concept. A second example of the confusion is the Huffman coding sequence on page 398 - I am having to go onto the internet because I just plain don't understand the example. In my personal opinion I do not feel the book is thorough enough . . . it needs to be written more simply with better diagrams and examples.
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