Algorithm I-IV (C++ Implementation)--- Basic Data Structure Sorting and Searching (Third Edition Facsimile Edition)

Author: Robert Sedgewick
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Features: This book presents algorithms and data structures in a concise and direct way using C++ implementations, providing students with means to validate this approach in practical applications. It extensively covers fundamental data structures and algorithms related to sorting, searching, and their applications. It includes arrays, linked lists, strings, trees, and other basic data structures, with a stronger emphasis on abstract data types (ADT), modular programming, object-oriented programming, and C++ classes. The book includes implementations of sorting, selection, priority queue ADT, and symbol table ADT (search), along with over 1,000 new exercises, more than 100 diagrams, and numerous program examples to help students learn the characteristics of computer algorithms. Robert Sedgewick completely revised his work, thoroughly expanding and updating it to cover current important algorithms and data structures. Christopher Van Wyk and Sedgewick developed new implementations in C++, which not only concisely and directly express algorithms but also provide programmers with practical methods to test these algorithms in real-world applications. The new edition offers many new algorithms, with much more detailed explanations for each algorithm compared to previous versions. The new layout design, along with detailed, creative, and annotated illustrations, greatly enhances the book's expressiveness. The third edition retains the successful blend of theory and practice, which makes Sedgewick's work an invaluable reference resource for over 250,000 programmers. This book is the first half of the full volume, covering basic data structures, sorting algorithms, searching algorithms, and their related applications. Although it can essentially be used for programming in various languages, Christopher Van Wyk and Sedgewick's implementations naturally correspond to C++ classes and ADT implementations. The highlights of this book include:
· Expanded introductions to arrays, linked lists, string trees, and other basic data structures.
· Greater emphasis on abstract data types (ADT), modular programming methods, object-oriented programming methods, and C++ classes compared to previous versions.
· Over 100 algorithms related to sorting, selection, priority queue ADT implementations, and symbol table ADT (search) implementations.
· New implementations of binomial queues, multiway radix sorting, randomized BSTs, divergent trees, skip lists, multiway threads, B-trees, and extensible hashing.
· Quantitative analysis of algorithms as a basis for comparing algorithms.
· Over 1,000 new exercises to help readers learn algorithms.
Whether you are a beginner in algorithms or looking for a reference manual that integrates new C++ classic algorithms and new algorithms into programming design, you will find this book provides rich and useful information.