Data structure techniques
by Thomas A. Standish · first published 1980
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…drive home the idea behind data-driven programming. There is a nice explanation in Expert C Programming: Deep C secrets. SICP has a detailed chapter on data-driven programming. An old text by Standish; Data Structure Techniques. Also i remember seeing a lot of neat table based data-driven code in old Data Processing books using COBOL. Unfortunately i can't remember their names now. Just browse some of the old COBOL books in…
on “Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder” ↗…will find this more approachable than most other text books and well worth a study. * How to Think about Algorithms by Jeff Edmonds - Practical techniques without too much mathematical formalism. * Data Structure Techniques by Thomas Standish - A Classic text; good adjunct to more modern texts. * Advanced Data Structures by Peter Brass - Nice succinct text but not necessarily "advanced". One final point; try to get a Algorithms…
on “Ask HN: Looking for a book on algorithms and data structures” ↗I taught (ahem) data structures and algorithms from a book I really liked (T. Standish, Data Structure Techniques, 1980) which emphasized the mathematical aspects of the subject. (It's still available on Amazon for the bargain price of $6.40.) My students hated it. I told them that it can't be read like a novel;…
on “Why is the state of mathematics education so abstract and uninspiring?” ↗