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C# Data Structures and Algorithms - Second Edition

By : Marcin Jamro
Book Image

C# Data Structures and Algorithms - Second Edition

By: Marcin Jamro

Overview of this book

Building your own applications is exciting but challenging, especially when tackling complex problems tied to advanced data structures and algorithms. This endeavor demands profound knowledge of the programming language as well as data structures and algorithms – precisely what this book offers to C# developers. Starting with an introduction to algorithms, this book gradually immerses you in the world of arrays, lists, stacks, queues, dictionaries, and sets. Real-world examples, enriched with code snippets and illustrations, provide a practical understanding of these concepts. You’ll also learn how to sort arrays using various algorithms, setting a solid foundation for your programming expertise. As you progress through the book, you’ll venture into more complex data structures – trees and graphs – and discover algorithms for tasks such as determining the shortest path in a graph before advancing to see various algorithms in action, such as solving Sudoku. By the end of the book, you’ll have learned how to use the C# language to build algorithmic components that are not only easy to understand and debug but also seamlessly applicable in various applications, spanning web and mobile platforms.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Data Types

Welcome to the first chapter in which you’ll start your amazing adventure with data structures and algorithms in the context of the C# programming language. First, we’ll provide a short introduction to this language. You will get to know how broad its possibilities are, in how many scenarios you can apply this language, as well as some basic constructions that you can use. This isn’t a C# course, so we won't be presenting various features one by one, and only a brief description will be provided.

The remaining part of this chapter is dedicated to data types, both built-in and user-defined, which you can use in your applications. First, you will learn what the difference is between value and reference types. Then, you will go through various available data types, starting with value types. Here, we will cover integral numeric types, floating-point numeric types, Boolean types, Unicode characters, constants, enumerations, value tuples, struct types...