Data Abstraction & Problem Solving with C++, 5th Edition

Preface

Chapter Dependency Chart

 

PART ONE - Problem-Solving Techniques

1 Principles of Programmingand Software Engineering

1.1Software Engineering and Object-Oriented Design

1.2 Achieving a Better Solution

1.3 Key Issues in Programming

 

2 Recursion: The Mirrors

2.1 Recursive Solutions

2.2 Counting Things

2.3 Searching an Array

2.4 Organizing Data

2.5 Recursion and Efficiency

 

3 Data Abstraction: The Walls

3.1 Abstract Data Types

3.2 Specifying ADTs

3.3 Implementing ADTs

 

4 Linked Lists

4.1 Preliminaries

4.2 Programming with Linked Lists

4.3 Variations of the Linked List

4.4 Application: Maintaining an Inventory

4.5 The C++ Standard Template Library

 

5 Recursion as a Problem-Solving Technique

5.1 Backtracking

5.2 Defining Languages

5.3 The Relationship Between Recursionand Mathematical Induction

 

PART TWO Problem Solving with Abstract Data Types

6 Stacks

6.1 The Abstract Data Type Stack

6.2 Simple Applications of the ADT Stack

6.3 Implementations of the ADT Stack

6.4 Application: Algebraic Expressions

6.5 Application: A Search Problem

6.6 The Relationship Between Stacks and Recursion

 

7 Queues

7.1 The Abstract Data Type Queue

7.2 Simple Applications of the ADT Queue

7.3 Implementations of the ADT Queue

7.4 A Summary of Position-Oriented ADTs

7.5 Application: Simulation

 

8 Advanced C++ Topics

8.1 Inheritance Revisited

8.2 Virtual Methods and Late Binding

8.3 Friends

8.4 The ADTs List and Sorted List Revisited

8.5 Class Templates

8.6 Overloaded Operators

8.7 Iterators

 

9 Algorithm Efficiency and Sorting

9.1 Measuring the Efficiency of Algorithms

9.2 Sorting Algorithms and Their Efficiency

 

10 Trees

10.1 Terminology

10.2 The ADT Binary Tree

10.3 The ADT Binary Search Tree

10.4 General Trees

 

11 Tables and Priority Queues

11.1 The ADT Table

11.2 The ADT Priority Queue: A Variation of the ADT Table

11.3 Tables and Priority Queues in the STL

 

12 Advanced Implementations of Tables

12.1 Balanced Search Trees

12.2 Hashing

12.3 Data with Multiple Organizations

 

13 Graphs

13.1 Terminology

13.2 Graphs as ADTs

13.3 Graph Traversals

13.4 Applications of Graphs

 

14 Processing Data in External Storage

14.1 A Look at External Storage

14.2 Sorting Data in an External File

14.3 External Tables

 

A  Review of C++ Fundamentals

B  ASCII Character Codes

C  C++ Header Files and Standard Functions

D  Mathematical Induction

E  Standard Template Library

F  C++ Documentation Systems