Data Structures Using Java

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Introduction

 1.1 The Course of This Course

In a nutshell, this course has two foci: The first is the efficient management and

manipulation of data. The second is the ability to implement methods for efficient

management and manipulation of data in a modern high-level programming lan-

guage, which in this case happens to be Java

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. This is not intended to be “a course

in Java”; rather, it is a course in the use of data structures and algorithms that uses

Java as the vehicle for turning concepts into the details of implementations. In the

final analysis, most people do not get paid to talk about how one might compute

something; they get paid to facilitate ...