Everyday Data Structures - Softcover

Smith, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1787121046 ISBN 13: 9781787121041

Publisher: Packt Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

A practical guide to learning data structures simply and easily

About This Book

• This book is a very practical, friendly, and useful guide that will help you analyze problems and choose the right data structures for your solution
• Learn to recognize data patterns for determining which structures apply to a given problem
• Explore the unique rules or "gotchas" that will help you become an excellent programmer

Who This Book Is For

If you're self-taught programmers in any language who wants to gain a solid understanding of data structures and how to use them to solve real-world problems in your day-to-day development work, then this book is for you.

What You Will Learn

• A rapid overview of data types, applications for each type, best practices and high-level variations between platforms
• Review the most common data structures and build working examples in the languages used for mobile platform software development
• Understand advanced data structure concepts such as generic collections, searching and sorting algorithms, and recursion
• Learn to use Stacks (LIFO) and queues (FIFO) in your daily application
• Add/remove objects and nest arrays and dictionaries within another dictionary and understand why such architecture is often preferred or necessary
• Get acquainted with the tree structures such as heap, binary, and graphs, apply them to work
• Unleash the power of different sorting techniques such as bubble sort, quick sort, merge sort, insertion sort, and radix sort
• Perform searching operations on arrays, heaps, graphs, and binary trees in different languages

About this title

About the Author

William Smith has been writing software since 1988, but he began his professional career in the environmental field with degrees in Environmental Science and Business Administration. While working in this field, William continued writing software as a hobbyist before returning to the University of Maryland for a degree in Computer Science.

William currently works as an independent software engineer and author. He is the owner of Appsmiths LLC, a development and consulting firm concentrating on mobile application and game development using native tools as well as cross-platform tools, such as Xamarin and Monogame.

William lives in rural West Virginia with his beautiful wife and four sons, where they enjoy hunting, fishing, and camping as a family.

Edition details

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1787121046
• ISBN 13: 9781787121041
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344