Data Structures and Algorithms
with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Java 
An experienced programmer is in a sense like concert musician--she has mastered a certain repertoire of pieces which she is prepared to play at any time. For the programmer, the repertoire comprises a set of abstract data types with which she is familiar and which she is able to use in her programs as the need arises.
The chapters following this present a basic repertoire of abstract data types. In addition to defining the abstractions, we show how to implement them in Java and we analyze the performance of the algorithms.
The repertoire of basic abstract data types has been designed as a hierarchy of Java classes. This section presents an overview of the class hierarchy and lays the groundwork for the following chapters.
Copyright © 1998 by Bruno R. Preiss, P.Eng. All rights reserved.