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C++ Data Structures and Algorithms

By : Wisnu Anggoro
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Book Image

C++ Data Structures and Algorithms

5 (1)
By: Wisnu Anggoro

Overview of this book

C++ is a general-purpose programming language which has evolved over the years and is used to develop software for many different sectors. This book will be your companion as it takes you through implementing classic data structures and algorithms to help you get up and running as a confident C++ programmer. We begin with an introduction to C++ data structures and algorithms while also covering essential language constructs. Next, we will see how to store data using linked lists, arrays, stacks, and queues. Then, we will learn how to implement different sorting algorithms, such as quick sort and heap sort. Along with these, we will dive into searching algorithms such as linear search, binary search and more. Our next mission will be to attain high performance by implementing algorithms to string datatypes and implementing hash structures in algorithm design. We'll also analyze Brute Force algorithms, Greedy algorithms, and more. By the end of the book, you'll know how to build components that are easy to understand, debug, and use in different applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Playing with words


A collection of characters is used to construct a word or a sentence. The position of each character in a word matters, since different character positions can cause the word to have different meanings. For example, when you rearrange the characters in God, you will get Dog.

There are two methods in strings to find another word from a word, or to ensure a word has exactly the same spelling both forward and backward. Let's play with them.

Rearranging a word to create an anagram

An anagram is a word that is produced by rearranging the letters of the word itself. Let's take a look at the word ELBOW. We can say that BELOW is anagram of ELBOW, since BELOW uses all the original letters of ELBOW exactly once. Not only from one word, an anagram can also be created from, and can create, two or more words: SCHOOL MASTER is an anagram of THE CLASSROOM, or FOURTH OF JULY is an anagram of JOYFUL FOURTH.

Checking whether two strings are an anagram or not is quite easy. We just need to sort...