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Are you looking for a comprehensive guide to help you ace your coding interview? If so, then DSA: The Ultimate Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms is the book for you! This book covers everything you need to know about data structures and algorithms, from the basics to the most advanced concepts. With DSA: The Ultimate Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms, you'll learn how to: Master the most common data structures and algorithms used in coding interviews Solve complex coding problems in an efficient and effective way Think like a software engineer and write code that is clear, concise, and correct

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Data Structures and Algorithms




DSA
Annotated Reference with Examples




Granville Barne! Luca Del Tongo
www.dbooks.org

, Data Structures and Algorithms:
Annotated Reference with Examples
First Edition
c Granville Barnett, and Luca Del Tongo 2008.
Copyright °

,Contents

1 Introduction 1
1.1 What this book is, and what it isn’t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Assumed knowledge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2.1 Big Oh notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2.2 Imperative programming language . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.2.3 Object oriented concepts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.3 Pseudocode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.4 Tips for working through the examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.5 Book outline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.6 Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.7 Where can I get the code? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.8 Final messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7


I Data Structures 8
2 Linked Lists 9
2.1 Singly Linked List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1.1 Insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.1.2 Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.1.3 Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.1.4 Traversing the list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.1.5 Traversing the list in reverse order . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2 Doubly Linked List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.2.1 Insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.2.2 Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.2.3 Reverse Traversal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.3 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

3 Binary Search Tree 19
3.1 Insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
3.2 Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.3 Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
3.4 Finding the parent of a given node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.5 Attaining a reference to a node . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
3.6 Finding the smallest and largest values in the binary search tree 25
3.7 Tree Traversals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3.7.1 Preorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26


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, 3.7.2 Postorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
3.7.3 Inorder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.7.4 Breadth First . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.8 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

4 Heap 32
4.1 Insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
4.2 Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
4.3 Searching . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
4.4 Traversal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
4.5 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

5 Sets 44
5.1 Unordered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
5.1.1 Insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
5.2 Ordered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
5.3 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47

6 Queues 48
6.1 A standard queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
6.2 Priority Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
6.3 Double Ended Queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
6.4 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

7 AVL Tree 54
7.1 Tree Rotations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
7.2 Tree Rebalancing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
7.3 Insertion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
7.4 Deletion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
7.5 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61


II Algorithms 62
8 Sorting 63
8.1 Bubble Sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
8.2 Merge Sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
8.3 Quick Sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
8.4 Insertion Sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
8.5 Shell Sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
8.6 Radix Sort . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
8.7 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70

9 Numeric 72
9.1 Primality Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
9.2 Base conversions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
9.3 Attaining the greatest common denominator of two numbers . . 73
9.4 Computing the maximum value for a number of a specific base
consisting of N digits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
9.5 Factorial of a number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
9.6 Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75


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