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C++ Data Structures and Algorithm Design Principles

By : John Carey, Anil Achary, Shreyans Doshi, Payas Rajan
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C++ Data Structures and Algorithm Design Principles

By: John Carey, Anil Achary, Shreyans Doshi, Payas Rajan

Overview of this book

C++ is a mature multi-paradigm programming language that enables you to write high-level code with a high degree of control over the hardware. Today, significant parts of software infrastructure, including databases, browsers, multimedia frameworks, and GUI toolkits, are written in C++. This book starts by introducing C++ data structures and how to store data using linked lists, arrays, stacks, and queues. In later chapters, the book explains the basic algorithm design paradigms, such as the greedy approach and the divide-and-conquer approach, which are used to solve a large variety of computational problems. Finally, you will learn the advanced technique of dynamic programming to develop optimized implementations of several algorithms discussed in the book. By the end of this book, you will have learned how to implement standard data structures and algorithms in efficient and scalable C++ 14 code.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

1. Lists, Stacks, and Queues

Learning Objectives

By the end of this chapter, you will be able to:

  • Describe the importance of using the right data structure in any application
  • Implement various built-in data structures, depending on the problem, to make application development easier
  • Implement a custom linear data structure suited for given situations if the ones provided by C++ are not good enough for the use case
  • Analyze real-life problems where different types of linear data structures are helpful and decide which one will be the most suitable for a given use case

This chapter describes the importance of using the right data structures in any application. We will learn how to use some of the most common data structures in C++, as well as built-in and custom containers, using these structures.