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| Data Structures and Abstractions with Java (Hardcover)
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Edition: 1st
Author: Frank Carrano, Walter Savitch
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Release Date: 2002-12-17
ISBN-10: 0130174890
ISBN-13: 9780130174895
List Price: $113.00
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Written by best selling authors Carrano and Savitch, this object-oriented book is designed and built with object-oriented issues and JAVA in mind. With a focus on the specification and implementation of ADTs, this book also shows the reader how to use and implement key data organizations such as dictionary, graph, and tree. Lists, iterators, dictionaries, sorting, trees, and more. For computer scientists, information systems designers, and other professionals that contend with data organization.
Poorly Organized and Not Enough Depth
| Customer Rating: | Easily the worst thing about this book is the organization. Basic data structures such as stacks and queues are presented near the end of the book, and heaps aren't explained until after priority queues! There is no logic in this book's organization.
The explanations are weak and incomplete. The author can ramble on about some things without really explaining anything. Also, the book barely scratches the surface of the explanations it attempts to give.
A positive, though, is that the diagrams and pictures are helpful.
Overall, it is useful for last minute review and not much else. |
Easily the worst $100 investment I ever made
| Customer Rating: | If you are planning on learning Data Structures and Algorithms, this is definitely the book to avoid!
Concepts are so horribly explained that I've ended up creating an aversion towards them. This book makes easy topics appear to be the most difficult things that you can ever learn.
Mr Carrano may be a top notch Computer Science person, but writing books is definitely not his forte. That is my opinion, after having to deal with this book for about two semesters.
I love books and have read good amount of books on computer science. I usually hate to sell them or give them away , but this book is definitely going to be off my shelf as soon as I am done with my course. In the future, I would for sure avoid any course that requires reading this book.
No other book bothered (read it as irritated) me as this one did. |
Great Transaction!!
| Customer Rating: | | Book was in new condition and shipped within a week. Would do business with again. |
big, expensive, and useless
| Customer Rating: | This is one of the most useless Java books. I am a professor teaching JAVA in a state university. From my teaching experience and the feedbacks from students, I do not think this work is even worth reading. This book intends to introduce data structure through JAVA programming, but it does not achieve either goal. First, it is not a JAVA introductory book. If you are new to Java, the Just JAVA 2 (by van der Linden) is the best choice. If you want to know more about java, Core Java 2 is the good choice and can also be used as reference. If you want to learn data structure, there are many better books available on pure data structure or data structure with C++.
This book is too expensive for students, and it does not deliver the content that is worth 1/10th of the book price. The only reason I use this for my class is that it is required by University and I cannot change that :(
P.S. if you just want to learn more about Java, Think in JAVA is a great book and is free. The author (Bruce Eckel) did a great job in writing a great book and sharing it free on the internet [...].
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Very good textbook
| Customer Rating: | We have been using this book at CSUCI as a textbook for a CS2 class with a heavy hands-on component. The book is very good in that role, and the lab manual - in spite of numerous errors in the first edition - is a very good companion.
It is neither a tutorial nor a reference; it is a textbook for a university-level course. It teaches students how to embed numerous data structures and algorithms in Abstract Data Types (ADTs), how to use them from clients, and how to utilize the existing equivalents from the Java libraries (mainly Java Collection Framework).
I highly recommend this book along with the lab manual to CS2 instructors.
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