C++ Plus Data Structures - Softcover

Nell Dale; Chip Weems; Tim Richards

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1284089185 ISBN 13: 9781284089189

Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 2016

Synopsis

C++ Plus Data Structures, Sixth Edition explores the specifications, applications, and implementations of abstract data types with unmatched accessibility. Topics such as modularization, data encapsulation, information hiding, object-oriented decomposition, algorithm analysis, life-cycle software verification models, and data abstraction are carefully presented to foster solid software engineering techniques. NEW & KEY FEATURES OF THE SIXTH EDITION: * UPDATED - Updated with new C++11 features including range-based for loops and threads * NEW - Includes a new Chapter 10, Trees Plus, that emphasizes balancing of search trees by covering AVL Trees, Red-Black Trees, and B-Trees * NEW - Includes a new chapter on Sets, Maps, and Hashing * NEW - Chapter 12, Sorting, now includes practical performance issues and parallel merge sort * NEW - Chapters in the second half of the text are now easier to assign in alternate orders, supporting a wider range of course goals and organizations * NEW - Modern new design enhances the look and feel of the text * STUDENT FAVORITE - Pedagogical features include: chapter openers with goals, marginal definition boxes, algorithm boxes, C++ boxes, function boxes, case studies, chapter summary, and end of chapter exercises

About this title

About the Authors

Nell Dale received a B.S. in Mathematics and Psychology from the University of Houston, a M.A. in Mathematics, from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin. Nell Dale has been on the faculty at the University of Texas, Austin since 1975. She teaches occasionally but concentrates on computer science education, writing, traveling, tennis, and bridge -- and her family of course.

Chip Weems is an Associate Professor of computer science at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees from Oregon State University in 1977 and 1979, respectively. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts in 1984. Over the last 23 years, he has taught courses in introductory programming, software engineering, computer architecture, and parallel processing. Since 1986 he has co-authored 13 textbooks that have helped over a million students learn to program computers. His books have been translated into French, Spanish, and Russian. He conducts research in computer architecture, compilers, parallel processing, and compiler-architecture co-optimization.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1284089185
• ISBN 13: 9781284089189
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 838