This is a book for students and instructors who love programming in object-oriented style.
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The techniques we have used have been explained thoroughly and used consistently in the textbook.
Although many books do use C++ or Java as the programming language of implementation, in our opinion, they do not fully take advantage of the object-oriented features available in the languages but instead simply translate the code from C or Pascal.
The popular object-oriented languages that are in vogue today include C++, Java, C#, and Smalltalk.
Object-oriented design is language independent but its implementation benefits from a language that is designed as object-oriented from the scratch.
Complex Data Structures are best explained in object-oriented style.
We believe this balance is much needed.
Our book, while adhering to designing most Data Structures from the scratch also employs STL for those who want to follow this approach.
Each approach has its merits and demerits.
Experience professors who teach Data Structures are pretty evenly split between teaching Data Structures by designing them ground up and teaching Data Structures using STL.
The second, perhaps more important, development is the use of STL or Standard Template Library in some texts.
We have consciously made an effort to connect the linkages that exist naturally between different phases of Data Structures design, and implementation.
It is almost as if the designers wave a wand and utter the magic words "abraca dabra" and the code jumps out.
Normally, books on Data Structures and software in general, do an excellent job explaining the algorithm but somehow fail to follow up the rigor of the algorithm with the clarity of the code resulting from it.
The strength of the book comes from the single-minded focus that we have had throughout the writing of it, on explaining the code thoroughly and consistently.
The authors understand how to write object-oriented code and how to explain it to students.
This is a book for students and instructors who love programming in object-oriented style
