C++ Plus Data Structures
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Author: Nell B. Dale
List Price: $87.95
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ISBN: 0763704814
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Pub (13 November, 2002)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 380,498
Average Customer Rating: 2.14 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 1 out of 5
*NOT* an Excellent Second Semester Text!
Like another reviewer, I used this required text in a data structures course at the University of Maryland. I attend the University of Maryland through UMUC, the online unit of the school, so having a good text is very important. Unlike the other reviewer for the University of Maryland, I very much disliked this book.A prerequisite to this course is an introductory C++ course that uses "Programming and Problem Solving with C++" which Nell Dale co-authored. I found "Programming and Problem Solving" to be pretty good and I earned a strong 'A' in the course. This book however was awful. Put simply, the material was too difficult to understand. My average at the end of the course would have earned me an F if the final grades hadn't been curved, which gave me a B. Perhaps this material is too complex for a one-semester course. I am unable to make this call since I still don't understand any of it. Regardless, the book was written to teach various concepts in a one-semester course and it fails to do much else than to frustrate the student.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Bad book!
The book is really bad and has nothing interesting inside.
Do not speand your time to study it!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Awful
This is a terrible textbook on data structures.The chapters are a meandering mess and are unpredictable. I've read several books on data structures, and this is the worst. Some chapters are all theory and bad pseudocode, and other chapters (specifically the binary tree chapter) are mostly code with little meaningful explanation. I've actually had a class with this book, and was forced to do the homework assignments from it--few of which had anything to do with the text. In order to learn anything useful, I ended up studying the homework exercises from another data structures textbook. Oh, and expect this code to compile. Every week my teacher had to provide us with a revised version of the code to fix their bugs. A complete waste of paper.
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