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C# Data Structures and Algorithms

You're reading from   C# Data Structures and Algorithms Harness the power of C# to build a diverse range of efficient applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248271
Length 372 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Marcin Jamro Marcin Jamro
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Data Types 2. Chapter 2: Introduction to Algorithms FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Arrays and Sorting 4. Chapter 4: Variants of Lists 5. Chapter 5: Stacks and Queues 6. Chapter 6: Dictionaries and Sets 7. Chapter 7: Variants of Trees 8. Chapter 8: Exploring Graphs 9. Chapter 9: See in Action 10. Chapter 10: Conclusion 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

“Sorted” sets

The previously described HashSet class can be understood as a dictionary that stores only keys, without values. So, if there is the SortedDictionary class, maybe there is also the SortedSet class? There is! However, can a set be “sorted”? Why is “sorted” written with quotation marks? The answer turns out to be very simple. By definition, a set stores a collection of distinct objects without duplicated elements and without a particular order. If a set does not support order, how can it be “sorted”? For this reason, a “sorted” set can be understood as a combination of HashSet and SortedList, not a set itself.

Imagine a “sorted” set

If you want to better imagine a “sorted” set, recall the previous example related to the game of chance. To facilitate manual comparison of results, both the set of randomly drawn numbers and the set of numbers selected by you can be “...

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