Aid comprehension and facilitate teaching with an approachable format and content organization
Material is organized into small segments that focus a reader’s attention and provide greater instructional flexibility.
Unique object-oriented presentation separates the specification and use of a data collection from its implementation, and presents each in their own brief chapters.
Each ADT is introduced in its own chapter, including examples or applications. To make it easier for students to learn and retain each ADT concept, Carrano covers specification and implementation of each ADT in separate, but consecutive chapters. This grants instructors flexibility in their teaching approach, while retaining the advantage of separation of specification and implementation.
Flexible and extensive assignments include a variety of exercises and programming projects that can be used in- class or assigned as homework, as well as self-test questions throughout each chapter.
The visually appealing, attractive design includes many figures and simple illustrations to provide students with a more thorough understanding of the concepts.
Keep your course current with updated material
NEW: Class design is covered in a new Prelude, which is positioned between the Introduction and Chapter 1.
NEW: Safe and secure programming is a new topic introduced in Chapter 2 and discussed in new Security Notes that are relevant to the implementations of the ADTs. The code throughout the book has been revised to reflect this subject matter.
UPDATED: Beginning with stacks in Chapter 5, most ADT methods now indicate failure by throwing an exception. Methods only return null in such cases when null cannot be a data value within a collection.
UPDATED: Additional coverage of generics treats generic methods and bounded types.
UPDATED: Illustrations show objects specifically instead of as values within nodes or array elements.
UPDATED: Vector-based implementations of the ADT list and queue are no longer covered, but are left as programming projects.
NEW: Line numbers appear in program listings.
UPDATED: All of the Java code is Java 8 compliant.
Support learning with student-friendly pedagogy
Help reinforce and test student understanding for sustained learning
NEW: Java Interludes – Relevant aspects of Java are covered in new Java Interludes that occur throughout the text. Java Interlude topics include: Generics; Exceptions; More About Generics; More About Exceptions; Iterators; Mutable and Immutable Objects; Inheritance; Generics Once Again; and Cloning.
Notes – Important ideas are presented or summarized in highlighted paragraphs that are meant to be read in line with the surrounding text.
Programming Tips – Suggestions to improve or facilitate programming are featured as soon as they become relevant.
Examples – Numerous examples illuminate new concepts.
Self-Test Questions – Questions are integrated within the text, throughout each chapter, to reinforce the concept just presented and help students understand the material. The reader must pause and reflect on the material to answer the question(s). Solutions to the self-test questions are provided at the end of each chapter.
VideoNotes – Step-by-step video tutorials are specifically designed to enhance the programming concepts presented in Carrano, Data Structures and Abstractions with Java, 4e. Students can view the entire problem-solving process outside of the classroom–when they need help the most. VideoNotes are available with the purchase of a new copy of select titles. Go to www.pearsonhighered.com/videonotes for a brief VideoNotes demo.
Exercises and Programming Projects – Further practice is available by solving the exercises and programming projects at the end of each chapter.
Teach students how to think critically about which DS is best to solve particular problems
A Problem Solved – Large examples are presented in the form of “A Problem Solved,” in which a problem is posed and its solution is discussed, designed, and implemented.
Design Decisions – To give readers insight into the design choices that one could make when formulating a solution, “Design Decision” elements lay out such options, along with the rationale behind the choice made for a particular example. These discussions are often in the context of one of the A Problem Solved examples.
UPDATED: Additional Design Decisions continue to present the options one has when specifying and implementing particular ADTs and provide the rationale behind our choices.
Complete instructor support package – Solutions Manuals, animations of various data structures, Lab Manual, and PowerPoint slides are available to instructors.
NEW: Instructor supplements now include a Test Bank.
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