Data structures & problem solving using Java
by Mark Allen Weiss · first published 1998
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…your familiar part where you have a good feel of what's what, and the report/test/whatever page can be your sandbox to see how your experiments deal with your data. One of the books I found helpful was Data Structures and Problem Solving Using Java by Mark A. Weiss. A softer start can be found with http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/index... If you want something using languages you already know, that's fine too. Say for example…
on “Ask HN: I've been a programmer for 6 years, and I can't solve basic CS problems” ↗…programming with Java by Timothy Budd, page 304 Teach yourself Java by Joseph O'Neil, page 184 Java in a Nutshell by Benjamin J. Evans, page 128 Java for Students by Douglas Bell and Mike Parr, page 490 Data structures and problem solving using Java by Mark Allen Weis, page 84 See here for a good article that goes over the downsides of this approach, and how it hurts both readability and performance: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/clean-code-horrible-perfor...
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