Object-oriented Data Structures Using Java

This textbook was mandatory for me to buy for my Data Structures course in college. This is an okay textbook. It is a decent secondary source as long as your professor is good at teaching, luckily for me, that is the case.A lot of the examples that are given to explain certain data structures are long winded and do not help at all. They are generally over complicated and are hard to understand. Also they also seem to contradict a lot of the common and more popular uses of java at times, which can be frustrating. My last gripe with this textbook is that it just decides to almost completely disregard Iterators, which are quite important to understand.The definitions are pretty solid, however, and so this book is a solid secondary source. It will help partially confused on a topic, but it is hard to fully grasp a topic just from this textbook, in my opinion. I would recommend professors to try to find a better alternative to this one.

For learning how to program using abstract data types (ADT's) within Java you could maybe do a whole lot worse? This book gives you a good conceptual understanding of all the ADT's which exist within Java (Stacks, Queues, Trees, Linked-lists, etc.), but as far as actually teaching you how to code using them it fails IMHO. Reading this book alone will not get you any closer to tackling the programming problems it assigns, but it does give you a decent human understanding how data structures function / behave within Java. Unless you are tasked to use this book for a course I would probably pass on it.

Forced to buy this book for a data structures in Java class.This textbook is far too wordy for its own good. Author tries to be witty by explaining something incorrectly for a page and then stating "Oops, I lied, this is actually how its done:"When I am trying to learn something I don't want to be given confusing explanations. Chapters have long winded walls of text that never seem to cut to the point - rarely is anything put into simple terms.The assignments inside the book are not too great either - they tend to have vague directions and without instructor clarification it is very difficult to work with this book unless you are already well versed with the author's specific implementations of the data structures covered. The directions are vague enough that you will end up writing code that has already been provided by the author.For such an expensive textbook, it leaves a lot to be desired.

Very good book for who wants to learn a new skill

This book covers the essential concepts, but doesn't do a good job explaining them. The examples generally do a poor job illustrating the ideas and methods. Frequently the book is too wordy and makes simple concepts seem hard to understand. The illustrations are average, but the text to describe them usually isn't very good. Some of the exercises are good, but other just ask you to spit back definitions from the chapter.

Didn't even touch this book in my class... Goodbye $30 rental fee...

We ended up not using the book.

teaches you what the title says, saved me this semesterbut sincerely? easily found online PDF

It was on time, and it was exactly what I needed. This is the same as the non international edition.