Data Structures and Other Objects Using C++ (4th Edition)

Data Structures and Other Objects Using C++ takes a gentle approach to the data structures course in C++. Providing an early, self-contained review of object-oriented programming and C++, this text gives students a firm grasp of key concepts and allows those experienced in another language to adjust easily. Flexible by design, professors have the option of emphasizing object-oriented programming, covering recursion and sorting early, or accelerating the pace of the course. Finally, a solid foundation in building and using abstract data types is also provided, along with an assortment of advanced topics such as B-trees for project building and graphs.

Customer Reviews:

Challenging yet rewarding!

By "kenjisan" - March 22, 2001

I thought this book was great. Yes, others may say it was very difficult to get through (i agree) but with persistence there is a big reward. The book provides full implementation details for a bunch of data structures and even sections devoted to the STL and iterators. I don't believe the implementation in this book was meant to be compiled under MVC++'s IDE. The back of the book provides a website containing a free compiler (GNU) to download along with other tools like the emacs editor (That runs on MS Windows). I have never experienced any problem compiling any of the example code under this free compiler (and using MVC++ for the code in the book is like trying to kill an ant with a shotgun anyways). This book was also not meant to teach basic C++ coding but rather to teach the concept of data structures (which should apply to various programming lang. anyways). If you want to learn how to code in C++, I recommend Deitel & Deitel "C++ How to program". However... read more

Suprisingly Good Text.

By "newbee1" - June 5, 2001

After reading the poor reviews I felt bad having to buy this book for a university level data structures course. However, after using this book for a short time I really grew to like it. It is an excellent introduction to classes and OOP in addition to data structures. It picks up right around where most introductory C++ texts leave off. I found the authors explanations to be very clear and the examples to be very relavant to the topics in each chapter. The author seems to build on topics chapter after chapter so it is hard to forget what has already been learned. This is one of the few text books that I am going to keep for future reference.

A book students should NOT be learning from...

By A Customer - August 16, 1999

This book is actually worse than a 'C masquerading as C++' type book. It mixes crappy C toolkits (linked list, etc) with C++ code. You NEVER EVER break encapsulation like this! Any students learning to code from this book will produce sloppy/amateur code at best, and are developing bad habits that will hurt them later. This book has been used at the college I go to, and ultimately students come out more confused about how to appropriately use C++. The toolkits themselves are amateur at best, and the functions inside them don't handle the special cases. I assume the authors left this as exercises for the students, but it really defeats the notion of their 'toolkits' -- it just leaves students confused. That said, the textual portion of the book is so-so, but the quality of the code leaves MUCH to be desired. I don't expect production quality code from books, but it should at least have good style and appropriate use of the language constructs. This book has neither. You've... read more