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Essential algorithms and data structures
Data structures
A feature of imperative programming languages, these abstractions of memory allow for the creation of higher order data structures.
What is a dictionary?
A dictionary is a data structure used for storing related data. It is often referred to as an associative array, as it stores two sets of data that are associated with each
other by mapping keys to values. It is also known as a key-value pair or hashmap. A dictionary is an implementation of a hash table search but is usually a fundamental data type in high-level languages.
Instead of a programmer having to code a hash table search, high-level languages provide the dictionary data type within the language. The single value in a key-value pair can also be a list of items, making this a very versatile data structure for a programmer.
Dictionary videos
What extra is in the book?
Each algorithm / data structure has its own dedicated chapter in the book, which includes:
- Overview
- Typical applications / uses
- Typical operations
- The algorithm written out in simple-structured English
- The algorithm written out in pseudocode
- Full code listing in Python
- Additional code listings in Visual Basic and C# are also available to download
- Diagrammatic walk-through
- Efficiency discussion with reference to Big-O notation
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