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Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python - Third Edition

By : Dr. Basant Agarwal
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Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python - Third Edition

By: Dr. Basant Agarwal

Overview of this book

Choosing the right data structure is pivotal to optimizing the performance and scalability of applications. This new edition of Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Python will expand your understanding of key structures, including stacks, queues, and lists, and also show you how to apply priority queues and heaps in applications. You’ll learn how to analyze and compare Python algorithms, and understand which algorithms should be used for a problem based on running time and computational complexity. You will also become confident organizing your code in a manageable, consistent, and scalable way, which will boost your productivity as a Python developer. By the end of this Python book, you’ll be able to manipulate the most important data structures and algorithms to more efficiently store, organize, and access data in your applications.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Index

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed an important data structure, i.e. tree data structures. Tree data structures in general provide better performance compared to linear data structures in search, insert, and deletion operations. We have also discussed how to apply various operations to tree data structures. We studied binary trees, which can have a maximum of two children for each node. Further, we learned about binary search trees and discussed how we can apply different operations to them. Binary search trees are very useful when we want to develop a real-world application in which the retrieval or searching of data elements is an important operation. We need to ensure that the tree is balanced for the good performance of binary search tree. We will discuss priority queues and heaps in the next chapter.