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Java Structures: Data Structures in Java for the Principled Programmer
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by Duane A. Bailey
Sales Rank: 1120749
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$57.95
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Hardcover: 514 pages
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies; 2nd edition November 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0071121633
ISBN-13: 978-0071121637
Product Dimensions:
9.3 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
Product Description
The second edition of Duane Bailey's Java Structures considers the design, implementation, and use of data structures using Java 2. The structure package, a collection of nearly 100 different classes implementing a wide variety of data structures, has been the basis of Java Structures for more than five years. Thousands of faculty, students, researchers, industrial and recreational programmers have investigated this lean and well tested approach to data structure design.
In this edition, the text develops a heavily tested package that is independent of but consistent with the Collection package offered by Sun. In many cases, the variety of implementations provides the programmer choices of data structure that are not available with the Collection system. For those curricula that make use of the Collection package, the structure package can be easily integrated into existing applications. All classes are fully documented and make consistent use of pre- and post-conditioning, and include support for assertion testing.
The second edition also brings a wealth of new resources, including a large number of new and original exercises and drill problems. Throughout the text, exercises appear in the running text to direct a deeper consideration of subtle issues by students. Perhaps the most innovative feature (first found in Bailey's Java Elements) is the inclusion of more than a dozen original lab exercises that focus on interesting and often classic problems of computer science.
All code for the book's examples, documentation, and the STRUCTURE package is posted on the book's website at www.mhhe.com/javastructures.
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This review is from: Java Structures : Data Structures in Java for the Principled Programmer (Hardcover)
This book was not very good. Initially, like alot of software books, the author's smug comments were not irritating. By the end of the book they were unnerving. The biggest beef I had with this text was that the author does not offer sufficient explanations for the code examples. He assumes you can just read it and then understand it. Also, in several chapters rather than presenting the facts then illustrating them in a complex example he does exactly the opposite! This did nothing but serve to confuse the issue. The author's goal is commendable: attempt to be brief and too the point. However, unfortunately this book suffers due to little or no supporting narrative to accompany the code. The book reminds me of a professor who is teaching a beginning class but assumes you can figure out the details on your own. The professor forgets that you don't know the details yet and its his job to give them to you. I did not like this book.
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Java Structures: Data Structures in Java for the Principled Programmer
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