Data Structures And Algorithms Made Easy: Data Structure And Algorithmic Puzzles

Data Structures and Algorithms Made Easy: Data Structure and Algorithmic Puzzles

ReviewReviews: goo.gl/uxjzrrI use this book for teaching "data structure and algorithm" course for freshman undergraduate students in a university. The following review is based on my experience of using the book as a textbook for the course.After teaching the course for one semester, I started to look for a textbook that could better suit my need than a conventional data structure textbook, with the following requirements:(1) There should be lots of code examples for the students to read and learn how to implement basic data structures.(2) The text in the book should be short and precise. As English is not our primary language, students are sometimes afraid of reading very long and detailed text in a textbook, and in that case they just avoid reading the textbook at all.(3) The code examples should be in C, as they have not yet learned other programming languages such as java or C++.After looking through a couple of similar books on Ergodebooks.com as well as in local computer bookstores, this book is the one that I selected for my course in the following years and it satisfies all these requirements. A few things that I like about this book:(1) Lots of figures in the book, showing how the data structure is modified and updated in a step-by-step manner. This is extremely important to a beginner - learn by examples. Visualization of a data structure is always easier to understand than the text.(2) The problem section after each chapter listed lots of relevant questions **with solutions (code included)**. Though that means I cannot just pick the problems in the textbook as homework assignments to the students, I do believe that this would enable the students to think more about how they would utilize the data structure they just learned, and see if their thoughts match with the solution.(3) Many problems in the problem section in each chapter take an approach that it develops the solution from the most na