1st Edition

Quick Data Structures

By David Matuszek Copyright 2025
169 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

169 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

169 Pages 48 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

If you want to upgrade your programming skills, the most important thing you need is a solid understanding of fundamental data structures. The proper choice of data structures distinguishes excellent programmers from merely competent ones. As an experienced programmer, you use data structures—at least arrays—all the time. However, you may not be familiar with hash tables, trees and binary... Read more

1. Building Blocks

2. Essential Math

3. Hash Tables and Hash Maps I

4. Recursion

5. Stacks, Queues, and Deques

6. Linked Lists

7. Binary Trees

8. Priority Queues

9. Heaps

10. Trees

11. Graphs

12. Hypergraphs

13. Algorithm Types

Biography

David Matuszek was the Director of the Master’s in Computer and Information Technology program at the University of Pennsylvania, USA (2001–2017). With 40 years’ teaching experience and 45 years’ programming experience, Dr. Matuszek is skilled in both the design of innovative software systems and in teaching others how to master programming languages in an accessible and engaging way.