Data Structures Made Simple

About this ebook

What you will learn

Understand how programs organise data, from arrays and strings to stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, heaps, graphs and hash tables. Every idea starts with an everyday example, working C code shows how it is built, and a final chapter helps you choose the right structure for a job.

Who it is for

College and diploma students.

Chapters

Contents

1. Chapter 1: Why data structures?
2. Chapter 2: Arrays
3. Chapter 3: Strings
4. Chapter 4: Stacks
5. Chapter 5: Queues and circular queues
6. Chapter 6: Linked lists
7. Chapter 7: Trees, binary search trees and heaps
8. Chapter 8: Graphs: BFS and DFS
9. Chapter 9: Hashing
10. Chapter 10: Sorting and searching
11. Chapter 11: Choosing the right structure

Inside

At the end of the book

• Practice questions. To check what you have learnt, with the answers after them.
• Glossary. The key words of the book, each explained in one sentence.
• Easy English. Short sentences and everyday words, with each new word explained the first time.

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