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From: Candace Cottrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 1:44 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: I need a little pick me up
*trickles of blood coming out of Candace's mouth and nose*
Candace K. Cottrell, Web Developer
The Children's Medical Center
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Dayton, OH 45404
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"There is no right price for the wrong product, even if it is inexpensive
and delivered on time."
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/29/2004 3:40:24 PM >>>
I know that somewhere in my pile of overpriced texts I've got something
good on the subject. If I can find it tonight, I'll let you know.
Basically, though, there are a few "first principles" that, once
learned, apply to pretty much anything.
For example, once you have a good grasp of the basics of linked lists
and arrays and how each is (or can be) indexed, you can figure out how
to make queues and stacks from each. Similarly, once you understand
about hash tables and trees, you can do an informal analysis of lookup
and insertion effeciency vs. memory efficiency in each.
But, then, I'm an incredibly geeky guy, so this was fun and games for
me.... YMMV.
--benD
Deanna Schneider wrote:
> So, all you folks that have done the online college thing, have any of you
> come across an excellent class on data structures? Not data models. Not
> databases, but data structures -
> An organization of information, usually in memory, for better algorithm
> efficiency, such as queue, stack, linked list, heap, dictionary, and tree,
> or conceptual unity, such as the name and address of a person. It may
> include redundant information, such as length of the list or number of
nodes
> in a subtree.
>
> My boss thinks it might be beneficial for me to learn more about these
> beasties, and he's willing to pay for a college course to do it. Mmmmmm.
>
> -d
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