Data Structures and Design

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Data Structures and Design will try to teach you about three things:

It will present a collection of commonly used data structures and algorithms. These form a programmer’s basic toolkit . For many problems, some data structure or algorithm in the toolkit will provide a good solution. We focus on data structures and algorithms that have proven over time to be most useful. It will introduce the idea of tradeoffs, and reinforce the concept that there are costs and benefits associated with every data structure or algorithm. This is done by describing, for each data structure, the amount of space and time required for typical operations. For each algorithm, we examine the time required for key input types. It will teach you how to measure the effectiveness of a data structure or algorithm. Only through such measurement can you determine which data structure in your toolkit is most appropriate for a new problem. The techniques presented also allow you to judge the merits of new data structures that you or others might invent.