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Summary: Absolute Must Have!
Review: "Algorithms and Data Structures" is an absolute must have for all advanced Delphi programmers. It's sitting on my bookshelf right next to my first edition, "Oh! PASCAL!." Why?It's the best book out there to cover all the fundamental aspects of low-level Object Pascal programming. The book covers, Arrays, Linked Lists, Stacks & Queues, Searching, Sorting, Randomized Algorithms, Hashing and Hash Tables, Binary Trees, Priority Queues and Heapsort, State Machines and Regular Expressions, Data Compression and Advanced Topics. I consistently reference this book. I've found Bucknall's discussion and insight into the TList, covered in the Arrays chapter, very informative. Bucknall's review of State Machines is also very good reading. If you want to write great code, or want a great review of Algorithms and Data Structures in Object PASCAL, buy this book.
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Summary: Absolute Must Have!
Review: "Algorithms and Data Structures" is an absolute must have for all advanced Delphi programmers. It's sitting on my bookshelf right next to my first edition, "Oh! PASCAL!." Why? It's the best book out there to cover all the fundamental aspects of low-level Object Pascal programming. The book covers, Arrays, Linked Lists, Stacks & Queues, Searching, Sorting, Randomized Algorithms, Hashing and Hash Tables, Binary Trees, Priority Queues and Heapsort, State Machines and Regular Expressions, Data Compression and Advanced Topics. I consistently reference this book. I've found Bucknall's discussion and insight into the TList, covered in the Arrays chapter, very informative. Bucknall's review of State Machines is also very good reading. If you want to write great code, or want a great review of Algorithms and Data Structures in Object PASCAL, buy this book.
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Summary: Excellent Book
Review: A very well written book. All the topics are well organised and easy to understand. A great buy if you want to write fast performing programs. Must for every developer.
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Summary: Excellent book
Review: I have no hesitation of recommending the book to all Object Pascal developers
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Summary: A must-have book on algorithms!
Review: I just received this morning the book "Algorithms and Data Structures" and could not take my eyes out of it! I skipped lunch and did not take any break today until now! This is the book on algorithms I have been looking for since my university days! Julian Bucknall is an extraordinary writer, one who knows how to turn complicated concepts into beautiful simplicity! I wish more authors would have published texts of that quality on Delphi topics; it would have dismissed the improper idea that Delphi is not a serious language and that it cannot be used in serious programming... A must for any serious Delphi programmer!
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Summary: Surprisingly very readable, and useable day to day
Review: I still think of myself as being a beginning programmer, although that's not totally true, having messed around for about ten years with CAD macro's and dbase add-ons and turned them into full-blown applications that finally became fairly complex. However, I never had a decent IT training beyond some basics in Fortran and Algol, and know next to nothing about OOP. I first thought Bucknall's book would not be for me, as I was afraid of landing into high level topics and getting lost in jargon. On the contrary, I hardly can stop reading the book, which finally provides a very practical approach to Delphi/Kylix programming, giving light to many abstract topics you will not find in most books : the trade-off between speed and memory efficiency, how data structures and the mix you make of them in your application affect your program's speed and reliability, easy steps that make debugging and testing more efficient,... Once you've got the hang of using the VCL within Delphi and know how to place controls on a form, you can immensely benefit from this book, that can be used as a reference into many algorithms and their Delphi implementation, or can be read chapter by chapter as an introduction to analyse the merits of several ways to sort/search/hash or use various data structures to solve a problem you face as a programmer. Julian Bucknall's text is very understandable, even to non english native speakers, stays close to the topic while providing you with a wide scope of insights into related subjects. He's also keen on giving you all the tips he can coming from his personal practice as a programmer that make you understand why some theoretical topics matter to your program's quality. It's nearly like having him looking over your shoulder and helping you making the best choices. The book provides you with a real simple alternative to searching the web multiple times or trying to translate C coded algorithms into a Delphi equivalent, hence it will be a time saver to many Delphi user's, even a casual one like me. This book is a must have, as a complement to a good Delphi / Pascal reference.
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Summary: Excellent book...
Review: I've had this book for just a couple of weeks and it has already gotten me out of a bind with a project I'm working on. I've read books on algorithms for C++ but this publication makes it so much easier to understand the examples without having to "translate" them over to Delphi first. A must for any Delphi user's library!
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Summary: A must have book...
Review: If you code in Delphi, or manage those that do, you need this book. It should be considered required reading in any Delphi based development shop (it is in mine!).
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Summary: A must have book...
Review: If you code in Delphi, or manage those that do, you need this book. It should be considered required reading in any Delphi based development shop (it is in mine!).
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Summary: You haven't bought this book yet ?
Review: If you program in Delphi, and you do not own this book,
you are wrong!!! This is not just a re-hash of the same old, sorting, searching,
sparse array, linked-lists, qeues, hashes, etc. While the author does cover these, he does two things which make this book a must buy. 1. He impliments them using classes, not just procedural code. and 2. He provides invaluable insights in to Random numbers, state machines, data compression and more. If he added a section on compiler design this could be a B.S. in Computer Science in a single book.
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