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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)

Summary

This was only the first chapter of this book, but it contained quite a lot of information that will be useful while you’re reading the remaining ones. First, the C# programming language was briefly presented with a focus on showing various data types, both value and reference ones. You learned the difference between them and why understanding this difference is so important while developing applications.

Next, you saw various value types, including the built-in ones, such as integral numeric types, floating-point numeric types, Boolean type, and Unicode characters. Then, you learned about constants, enumerations, value tuples, user-defined struct types, and nullable value types. All of these were equipped with detailed descriptions, as well as some code examples to make understanding easier and faster.

Finally, you learned about the second group of types, namely reference types. Here, you saw the object and string types, classes, records, interfaces, as well as...