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As a developer, you have certainly stored various collections within your applications, such as user data, books, and logs. One of the natural ways of storing such data is by using arrays and lists. However, have you ever thought about their variants? Have you heard about jagged arrays or circular-linked lists? In this chapter you will see such data structures in action, together with examples and detailed descriptions. That is not all, because the chapter is related to many topics regarding arrays and lists, suitable for developers with various levels of programming skills.

At the start of the chapter, the arrays will be presented and divided into single-dimensional, multi-dimensional, and jagged arrays. You will also get to know four sorting algorithms, namely selection, insertion, bubble sort, and quicksort. For each of them, you will see an illustration-based...

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Master array, set and map with trees and graphs, among other fundamental data structures

Delve into effective design and implementation techniques to meet your software requirements

Explore illustrations to present data structures and algorithms, as well as their analysis in a clear, visual manner

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Data structures allow organizing data efficiently. They are critical to various problems and their suitable implementation can provide a complete solution that acts like reusable code. In this book, you will learn how to use various data structures while developing in the C# language as well as how to implement some of the most common algorithms used with such data structures. At the beginning, you will get to know arrays, lists, dictionaries, and sets together with real-world examples of your application. Then, you will learn how to create and use stacks and queues. In the following part of the book, the more complex data structures will be introduced, namely trees and graphs, together with some algorithms for searching the shortest path in a graph. We will also discuss how to organize the code in a manageable, consistent, and extendable way. By the end of the book,you will learn how to build components that are easy to understand, debug, and use in different applications.

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How to use arrays and lists to get better results in complex scenarios

Implement algorithms like the Tower of Hanoi on stacks of C# objects

Build enhanced applications by using hashtables, dictionaries and sets

Make a positive impact on efficiency of applications with tree traversal

Effectively find the shortest path in the graph

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Adam Sep 11, 2020

Overall this book is quite good. The code examples use good fundamentals of object oriented design. They also use built in c# constructs to get to the final data structure.The cons I’ve found so far are Merge sort is not present, and the tree visualization example doesn’t include putting blank space characters to space out the tree. (Add a for loop that looks for null characters and replaces them with spaces gets it to render correctly)Overall though this book explains complicated data structures in a simple way. It introduces recursion in a way that’s easy to implement. I’m happy with this purchase and it’s taught me a few tricks I didn’t know as a full time c# developer.

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Felix Mar 14, 2019

The books goes through all advanced data structures - Sets, Trees, Graphs, etc. For each of the structures it shows whether C# provides implementation out of the box (eg., for Dictionary), or there is third-party Nuget package (eg., Tree), or you need to develop your own implementation. Unfortunately, some NuGet packages haven't been updated since 2011 and are not compatible with .NET Core... oh well!For the programmers that skipped advanced data structures class, the book gives a refresher for things like AVL trees or Graph traversal. It also gives more algorithm implementations than you ever wanted to know.Finally, the book shows you what data structure fits what problem.

jose antonio vega ruiz Feb 01, 2022

Good enough

Emran Apr 15, 2021

I am an experienced C# programmer, but, In our time, there was no C# book for data structure and algorithms. I learned Algorithms using Java. So, I was excited when I saw this book. That's the reason I bought it. But, I found a piece of terrible advice in this book, as you can see from the screenshot I attached. In the chapter on Dictionaries and Sets, when accessing a dictionary with a given key where the key does not exist, the application will crash. The book says, "You can prevent the application from crashing by using a try-catch block". I was shocked to see this advice. Try-Catch should never be the way to handle this situation. There are many better ways, like checking the "ContainsKey(.._) method, or the best way for performance is : dictionary.TryGetValue("keyName", out string foundValue);A book of algorithms should suggest the way that gives the better performance. But, try-catch is .,, I don't know what to say.Anyway, the book teaches some basic C# stuff which will be helpful for beginners, for sure. It talks about many algorithms. It could be more interesting, but can't complain much about that.

Amazon Customer May 05, 2022

The DS are briefly explained, for more information look up MSDN ...

C# Data Structures and Algorithms: Explore the possibilities of C# for developing a variety of efficient applications

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