Название: Data Structures in Java
Автор: Oswald Campesato
Издательство: Mercury Learning and Information
Год: 2023
Страниц: 248
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 10.8 MB

This book is a fast-paced introduction to using data structures with Java. Numerous code samples and listings are included to support myriad topics. The first chapter contains a quick introduction to Java, along with Java code samples to check for leap years, find divisors of a number, and work with arrays of strings. The second chapter introduces recursion and usescode samples to check if a positive number is prime, to find the prime divisors of a positive integer, to calculate the GCD (greatest common divisor) and LCM (lowest common multiple) of a pair of positive integers. The third chapter contains Java code samples involving strings and arrays, such as finding binary substrings of a number, checking if strings contain unique characters, counting bits in a range of numbers, and how to compute XOR without using the XOR function. Chapters 4 through 6 include Java code samples involving search algorithms, concepts in linked lists, and tasks involving linked lists. Finally, Chapter 7 discusses data structures called queues and stacks, along with additional Java code samples.

Features:

Extensive topics, code samples, and scripts related to data structures
Covers strings, arrays, queues, and stacks, linked lists, computing the XOR function, checking for unique characters, and more
Includes companion files with code samples from the book (available for downloading from the publisher)

The target audience:
This book is intended primarily for people who have some exposure to Java and are interested in learning about data structures. This book is also intended to reach an international audience of readers with highly diverse backgrounds in various age groups. While many readers know how to read English, their native spoken language is not English (which could be their second, third, or even fourth language). Consequently, this book uses standard English rather than colloquial expressions that might be confusing to those readers. As such, this book endeavors to provide a comfortable and meaningful learning experience for the intended readers.

What do i need to know for this book?
A basic knowledge of Java is the most helpful skill, and some exposure to recursion and data structures is obviously helpful. Knowledge of other programming languages can also be helpful because of the exposure to programming concepts and constructs. The less technical knowledge that you have, the more diligence will be required in order to understand the various topics that are covered. If you want to be sure that you can grasp the material in this book, glance through some of the code samples to get an idea of how much is familiar to you and how much is new for you.