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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

Arrays are among the most common data structures that are used while developing various kinds of applications, such as mobile, web, or distributed ones. However, this topic is not as easy as it seems to be because even arrays can be divided into a few variants, namely single-dimensional and multi-dimensional, such as two-dimensional and three-dimensional, as well as jagged arrays, also referred to as arrays of arrays.

While talking about arrays, don’t forget about sorting algorithms, which are one of the most popular algorithms used with this data structure. There are plenty of sorting algorithms that differ by their concept, application, implementation details, and performance results. In this chapter, you learned about seven different sorting algorithms, namely selection sort, insertion sort, bubble sort, merge sort, Shell sort, quicksort, and heap sort. Each of them was described, visualized in figures, and written in C# code.

At the end of this chapter, you...