Re: Are there books about C data structures?

On Aug 23, 8:23 am, "osmium" <r124c4u...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Spiros Bousbouras" writes:
On Aug 23, 3:24 pm, "osmium" <r124c4u...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Spiros Bousbouras" wrote:
On Aug 23, 1:06 am, user923005 <dcor...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 22, 4:39 pm, Mik0b0 <new...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> Hallo to
everyone.
This fall I am going to start data structures as a part of C
language
course. The problem is I could not find any satisfying tutorial
about
structures in C. There are plenty of books about data structures in
C+
+ etc., could anyone please recommend me such a C -specific book ?

"Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C (Second Edition)"
by Mark Allen Weiss
ISBN: 0-201-49840-5

Is this C ? I'm asking because I just checked the reviews
on amazon.com and several say that the examples are in C++.
They were probably commenting on the wrong book but I want
to make sure.

Without spending the entire day on this, the only book on Amazon by Weiss
that I could find has C++ in the *title*. IOW, I couldn't even *find*
the
book with the title listed above. How about providing a link to the
reviews
you mentioned?

There you go
http://tinyurl.com/2cxygn

Why that book didn't show up on my search is puzzling, also the heavy dose
of comments WRT C++ are puzzling too. After scanning those reviews, I would
certainly consider this book as a last resort to buy. But I am opposed to
the general notion of language oriented books anyway, they use the language
du jour. Algorithms are permanent, languages are transient. I really
wouldn't want to struggle through a Fortran oriented book because that was
in fashion when I went to school. I think pseudocode or a "teaching
language" Algol or Pascal - - and a *lot* of drawings - should be used to
teach these things.

My favorite book for a beginner is probably unobtainable. _Data Structures
with Abstract Data Types and Pascal_, by Daniel F Stubbs, et al.

Dan Stubbs was a frequent poster here (with a lot of ability), and so
I guess that book would be very good.

Weiss is excellent, and the idiot reviews do not tarnish the excellent
nature of the book.

Probably, the best book to learn algorithms and data structures is the
CLR book.
I have all of Sedgewick's books and they are good (though some of his
code won't compile).
I also have Budd's books and I like them.
I have "Mastering Algorithms with C" but it is really a raw beginner
book, and so the title is very misleading.

Every programmer on earth should own his own set of TAOCP.

.

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