Careermonk Publications Data Structures and Algorithms Made Easy in JAVA: Data Structure and Algorithmic Puzzles

I loved the book , content and page wise both. It was packaged carefully in a hard box to avoid any damage to the book which I truly appreciate. But it has typo mistakes and some examples are not organized.

well laid out

It says made easy but it’s not easy, and the font size is too small for such complicated book. I would buy a different book

I am studying computer science engineering at NIT Trichy and at the end of my Data structures and Algorithms course. It was referred by my seniors who prepared this book for their course and campus placements. With curiosity, I bought this book. I realized right away that this book is one of the best book to get concepts clear with clear-cut explanations. The main difference between this book and other books is that the explanations are so clear, I can honestly say it has been relatively easy to learn. I haven't struggled at all. The author takes a very clean approach, only focusing on the subject of algorithms and data structures. The concept of data structures and algorithms does not care about languages. He also criticizes the current trend of mixing "software engineering" and "object oriented concepts" in with this subject. His goal was to create the most easily understood book ever written on data structures and algorithms. I would say he hit his mark dead-on! The only thing missing from the book is exercises and glossary. There are none (at least not in the current edition). I posted few questions on publisher's site: CareerMonk.com and the replies were really fast. We can find out the new questions by checking the publisher's Website. The author has given us a real gem, and for that I am grateful. I also saw many posts about the achievements of this book. It is very good to see that an Indian authored books were being used as reference books, translated to different languages. Till now, we have seen only the reverse case. It is a great achievement. Note: I bought both Java and C editions and hence copying the reviews to both versions. Also, I would say one version is enough. Do not buy both.

I'm really enjoying this book. My skills on algorithms were a little bit rusty since I'm graduated for some time (around 17 years ago). The point is that nowadays you have all of these data structures already built-in inside wherever language you pick (Java, C#, Python...), so this makes you become somehow "lazy" and this is not good after all ... mainly when a complex project arrives on your desk or when you want to join a cool open source project that has several sorts of data structures inside, like the Linux Kernel, without this knowledge you can't basically get in a project of such magnitude. I'll gave 05 stars for this book due to the following: 1. The book is very objective and you don't need to read tons of pages before a practical example. 2. The author explains visually every algorithm what really helps because I'm very used to think "visually". 3. The book has a lot of exercises so once you grasp the concepts you'll be faced with exercises and detailed explanations. 4. The book arms you with knowledge to pick the best data structure, even when your language/library already gives you one. 5. The author maintains a nice website with videos explaining the concepts of the book. 6. Comparing to other data structures books this one is the most practical in my opinion.

Good book but there are too many printing errors. Also the Java coding examples often cannot be compiled. They have variable name errors or they are inaccurate. All this despite being a second edition. It would be 5 stars, but only after a serious review.