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C# Data Structures and Algorithms - Second Edition

By : Marcin Jamro
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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)

C# as a programming language

As a developer, you have probably heard about many programming languages, including C#, Java, C++, C, PHP, and Ruby. In all of them, you can use various data structures, as well as implement algorithms, to solve both basic and complex problems. However, each language has a specificity that’s visible while implementing data structures and accompanying algorithms. As mentioned previously, this book only focuses on the C# programming language. This is also the main topic of this section.

The C# language, pronounced C sharp, is a modern, general-purpose, strongly typed, and object-oriented programming language that can be used while developing a wide range of applications, such as web, mobile, desktop, distributed, and embedded solutions, as well as even games! It cooperates with various additional technologies and platforms, including ASP.NET Core, XAML, and Unity. Therefore, when you learn the C# language, as well as get to know more about data...