Book Image

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)

The last word

You just reached the end of the last chapter of the book. First, the classification of data structures was presented, taking into account linear and non-linear data structures. In the first group, you can find arrays, lists, stacks, and queues, while the second group involves graphs and their subtypes, including trees and heaps. In the following part of this chapter, the diversity of applications of various data structures was taken into account. You saw a short summary of each described data structure, as well as information about some problems that can be solved with the use of a particular data structure, such as a queue or a graph. To make the content easier to understand, as well as to remind you of the various topics from the previous chapters, the summary was equipped with brief descriptions and illustrations of data structures.

In the introduction to this book, I invited you to start your adventure with data structures and algorithms. While reading the following...