num_pages: 158
description: If youre a student studying computer science or a software developer preparing for technical interviews this practical book will help you learn and review some of the most important ideas in software engineeringdata structures and algorithmsin a way thats clearer more concise and more engaging than other materials. By emphasizing practical knowledge and skills over theory author Allen Downey shows you how to use data structures to implement efficient algorithms and then analyze and measure their performance. Youll explore the important classes in the Java collections framework (JCF) how theyre implemented and how theyre expected to perform. Each chapter presents hands-on exercises supported by test code online. Other books by Allen Downey include Think Java  Think Python  Think Stats  and Think Bayes .
language: English
title: Think Data Structures: Algorithms and Information Retrieval in Java
publisher: O'Reilly Media