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Java 9 Data Structures and Algorithms

You're reading from   Java 9 Data Structures and Algorithms A step-by-step guide to data structures and algorithms

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785889349
Length 340 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Debasish Ray Chawdhuri Debasish Ray Chawdhuri
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Why Bother? – Basic FREE CHAPTER 2. Cogs and Pulleys – Building Blocks 3. Protocols – Abstract Data Types 4. Detour – Functional Programming 5. Efficient Searching – Binary Search and Sorting 6. Efficient Sorting – quicksort and mergesort 7. Concepts of Tree 8. More About Search – Search Trees and Hash Tables 9. Advanced General Purpose Data Structures 10. Concepts of Graph 11. Reactive Programming Index

Summary


In this chapter, we discussed priority queues and their implementation. Priority queues are important data structures that are used in a lot of problems. We saw two implementations of a priority queue, a heap, and a binomial forest. We also saw how to use priority queues for sorting, which is asymptotically optimal. A variation of this allowed us to sort an array in place using an array-based heap.

In the next chapter, we will discuss the concept of graphs, which are very useful, almost ubiquitous ADTs, and data structures that are used in many real-life applications.

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