本书采用程序员最爱用的面向对象C++语言来描述数据结构和算法，并把数据结构原理和算法分析技术有机地结合在一起，系统介绍了各种类型的数据结构和排序、检索的各种方法。作者非常注意对每一种数据结构的不同存储方法及有关算法进行分析比较。书中还引人了一些比较高级的数据结构与先进的算法分析技术，并介绍了可计算性理论的一般知识。书中分别给出了C++实现方法和伪码实现方法，便于读者根据情况选择。本书作者维护的网站上可下载相关代码、编程项目和辅助练习资料。
本书适合作为大专院校计算机软件专业与计算机应用专业学生的教材和参考书，也适合计算机工程技术人员参考。

Ⅰ Preliminaries
1 Data Structures and Algorithms
1.1 A Philosophy of Data Structures
1.1.1 The Need for Data Structures
1.1.2 Costs and Benefits
1.2 Abstract Data Types and Data Structures
1.3 Design Patterns
1.3.1 Flyweight
1.3.2 Visitor
1.3.3 Composite
1.3.4 Strategy
1.4 Problems, Algorithms, and Programs
1.5 Further Reading
1.6 Exercises
2 Mathematical Preliminaries
2.1 Sets and Relations
2.2 Miscellaneous Notation
2.3 Logarithms
2.4 Summations and Recurrences
2.5 Recursion
2.6 Mathematical Proof Techniques
2.6.1 Direct Proof
2.6.2 Proof by Contradiction
2.6.3 Proof by Mathematical Induction
2.7 Estimation
2.8 Further Reading
2.9 Exercises
3 Algorithm Analysis
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Best, Worst, and Average Cases
3.3 A Faster Computer, or a Faster Algorithm?
3.4 Asymptotic Analysis
3.4.1 Upper Bounds
3.4.2 Lower Bounds
3.4.3 Notation
3.4.4 Simplifying Rules
3.4.5 Classifying Functions
3.5 Calculating the Running Time for a Program
3.6 Analyzing Problems
3.7 Common Misunderstandings
3.8 Multiple Parameters
3.9 Space Bounds
3.10 Speeding Up Your Programs
3.11 Empirical Analysis
3.12 Further Reading
3.13 Exercises
3.14 Projects
Ⅱ Fundamental Data Structures
4 Lists, Stacks, and Queues
4.1 Lists
4.1.1 Array-Based List Implementation
4.1.2 Linked Lists
4.1.3 Comparison of List Implementations
4.1.4 Element Implementations
4.1.5 Doubly Linked Lists
4.2 Stacks
4.2.1 Array-Based Stacks
4.2.2 Linked Stacks
4.2.3 Comparison of Array-Based and Linked Stacks
4.2.4 Implementing Recursion
4.3 Queues
4.3.1 Array-Based Queues
4.3.2 Linked Queues
4.3.3 Comparison of Array-Based and Linked Queues
4.4 Dictionaries
4.5 Further Reading
4.6 Exercises
4.7 Projects
5 Binary Trees
5.1 Definitions and Properties
5.1.1 The Full Binary Tree Theorem
5.1.2 A Binary Tree Node ADT
5.2 Binary Tree Traversals
5.3 Binary Tree Node Implementations
5.3.1 Pointer-Based Node Implementations
5.3.2 Space Requirements
5.3.3 Array Implementation for Complete Binary Trees
5.4 Binary Search Trees
5.5 Heaps and Priority Queues
5.6 Huffman Coding Trees
5.6.1 Building Huffman Coding Trees
5.6.2 Assigning and Using Huffman Codes
5.6.3 Search in Huffman Trees
5.7 Further Reading
5.8 Exercises
5.9 Projects
6 Non-Binary Trees
6.1 General Tree Definitions and Terminology
6.1.1 An ADT for General Tree Nodes
6.1.2 General Tree Traversals
6.2 The Parent Pointer Implementation
6.3 General Tree Implementations
6.3.1 List of Children
6.3.2 The Left-Child/Right-Sibling Implementation
6.3.3 Dynamic Node Implementations
6.3.4 Dynamic “Left-Child/Right-Sibling” Implementation
6.4 K-ary Trees
6.5 Sequential Tree Implementations
6.6 Further Reading
6.7 Exercises
6.8 Projects
Ⅲ Sorting and Searching
7 Internal Sorting
7.1 Sorting Terminology and Notation
7.2 Three□(n2) Sorting Algorithms
7.2.1 Insertion Sort
7.2.2 Bubble Sort
7.2.3 Selection Sort
7.2.4 The Cost of Exchange Sorting
7.3 Shellsort
7.4 Mergesort
7.5 Quicksort
7.6 Heapsort
7.7 Binsort and Radix Sort
7.8 An Empirical Comparison of Sorting Algorithms
7.9 Lower Bounds for Sorting
7.10 Further Reading
7.11 Exercises
7.12 Projects
8 File Processing and External Sorting
8.1 Primary versus Secondary Storage
8.2 Disk Drives
8.2.1 Disk Drive Archi