As a developer, you have certainly heard about various data structures and algorithms. However, have you ever thought profoundly about them and their impact on the performance of your applications? If not, it is high time to take a look at this topic, and this book is a great place to start!
The book covers many data structures, starting with simple ones, namely arrays and a few of their variants, as representatives of random access data structures. Then, lists are introduced, together with their sorted variant. The book also explains limited access data structures, based on stacks and queues, including a priority queue. Following this, we introduce you to the dictionary data structure, which allows you to map keys to values and perform ...
