Introduction | |
What's New in the Second Edition | |
What This Book Is About | |
What's Different About This Book | |
Who This Book Is For | |
What You Need to Know Before You Read This Book | |
The Software You Need to Use This Book | |
How This Book Is Organized | |
Enjoy Yourself! | |
Overview | |
What Are Data Structures and Algorithms Good For? Overview of Data Structures | |
Overview of Algorithms | |
Some Definitions | |
Object-Oriented Programming | |
Software Engineering | |
Java for C++ Programmers | |
Java Library Data Structures | |
Summary | |
Questions | |
Arrays | |
The Array Workshop Applet | |
The Basics of Arrays in Java | |
Dividing a Program into Classes | |
Class Interfaces | |
The Ordered Workshop Applet | |
Java Code for an Ordered Array | |
Logarithms | |
Storing Objects | |
Big O Notation | |
Whay Not Use Arrays for Everything | |
Summary | |
Questions | |
Experiments | |
Programming Projects | |
Simple Sorting | |
How Would You Do It | |
Bubble Sort | |
Selection Sort | |
Insertion Sort | |
Sorting Objects | |
Comparing the Simple Sorts | |
Summary | |
Questions | |
Experiments | |
Programming Projects | |
Stacks and Queues | |
A Different Kind of Structure | |
Stacks | |
Queues | |
Priority Queues | |
Parsing Arithmetic Expressions | |
Summary | |
Questions | |
Experiments | |
Programming Projects | |
Linked Lists | |
Links | |
The Link List Workshop Applet | |
A Simple Linked List | |
Finding and Deleting Specified Links | |
Double-Ended Lists | |
Linked-List Efficiency | |
Abstract Data Types | |
Sorted Lists | |
Doubly Linked Lists | |
Iterators | |
Summary | |
Questions | |
Experiments | |
Programming Projects | |
Recursion | |
Triangular Numbers | |
Factorials | |
Anagrams | |
A Recursive Binary Search | |
The Towers of Hanoi | |
Mergesort | |
Eliminating Recursion | |
Some Interesting Recursive Applications | |
Summary | |
Questions | |
Experiments | |
Programming Projects | |
Advanced Sorting | |
Shellsort | |
Paartitioning | |
Quicksort | |
Radix Sort | |
Summary | |
Questions | |
Experiments | |
Programming Projects | |
Binary Trees | |
Why Use Binary Trees? Tree Terminology | |
An Analogy | |
How Do Binary Search Trees Work | |
Finding a Node | |
Inserting a Node | |
Traversing the Tree | |
Finding Maximum and Minimum Values | |
Deleting a Node | |
The Efficiency of Binary Trees | |
Trees Represented as Arrays | |
Duplicate Keys | |
The Complete tree | |
Java Program | |
The Huffman Code | |
Summary | |
Questions | |
Experiments | |
Programming Projects | |
Red-Black Trees | |
Our Approach to the Discussion | |
Balanced and Unbalanced Trees | |
Using the RBTree Workshop Applet | |
Experimenting with the Workshop Applet | |
Rotations | |
Inserting a New Node | |
Deletion | |
The Efficiency of Red-Black Trees | |
Red-Black Tree Implementation | |
Other Balanced Trees | |
Summary | |
Questions | |
Experiments | |
2-3-4 Trees and External Storage | |
Introduction to 2-3-4 Trees | |
The Tree234 Workshop Applet | |
Java Code for a 2-3-4 Tree | |
2-3-4 Trees and Red-Black Trees | |
Efficiency of 2-3-4 Trees | |
2-3 Trees | |
External Storage | |
Summary | |
Questions | |
Experiments | |
Programming Projects | |
Hash Tables | |
Introduction to Hashing | |
Open Addressing | |
Separate Chaining | |
Hash Functions | |
Hashing Efficiency | |
Hashing and External Storage | |
Summary | |
Questions | |
Experiments | |
Programming Projects | |
Heaps | |
Introduction to Heaps | |
The Heap Workshop Applet | |
Java Code fo Heaps | |
A Tree-based Heap | |
Heapsort | |
Summary | |
Questions | |
Experiments | |
Programming Projects | |
Graphs | |
Introduction to Graphs | |
Searches | |
Minimum Spanning Trees | |
Topological Sorting with Directed Graphs | |
Connectivity in Directed Graphs | |
Summary | |
Questions | |
Experiments | |
Programming Projects | |
Weighted Graphs | |
Minimum Spanning Tree with Weighted Graphs | |
The Shortest-Path Problem | |
The All-Pairs Shortest-Path Problem | |
Efficien | |
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