Everyday Data Structures

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
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