本书为数据结构的教材，讲述如何用开放的、纯面向对象的Java作为描述语言来设计和实现传统的数据结构。全书结构严谨，讲解清晰，提供了大量的示例，使读者不仅能学习数据结构的具体实现，而且抽象出一般的设计原则，掌握并灵活运用这些原则，将使读者受益匪浅。
本书可作为计算机及相关专业的数据结构课程的教材。对于不熟悉Java语言的读者，建议先进行附录B的Java语言学习。

Preface to First Editon
Preface to the Second Edition
0 Introduction
0.1 Read Me
0.2 He Can’t say That,Can He?
1 The Object-Oriented Method
1.1 Data Abstraction and Encapsulation
1.2 The Object Model
1.3 Object-Oriented Terminology
1.4 A Special-Purpose Class:A Bank Account
1.5 A General-Purpose Class:An Association
1.6 Sketching an Example:A Word List
1.7 Sketching an Example:A Rectangle Class
1.8 Interfaces
1.9 Who Is the User?
1.10 Conclusions
1.11 Laboratory:The Day of the Week Calculator
2 Comments,Conditions,and Assertions
2.1 Pre- and Postconditions
2.2 Assertions
2.3 Craftsmanship
2.4 Conclusions
2.5 Laboratory:Using Javadoc Commenting
3 Vectors
3.1 The Interface
3.2 Example:The Word List Revisited
3.3 Example:Word Frequency
3.4 The Implementation
3.5 Extensibility:A Feature
3.6 Example:L-Systems
3.7 Example:Vector-Based Sets
3.8 Example:The Matrix Class
3.9 Conclusions
3.10 Laboratory:The Silver Dollar Game
4 Design Fundamentals
4.1 Asymptotic Analysis Tools
4.1.1 Time and Space Complexity
4.1.2 Examples
4.1.3 The Trading of Time and Space
4.1.4 Back-of-the-Envelope Estimations
4.2 Self-Reference
4.2.1 Recursion
4.2.2 Mathematical Induction
4.3 Properties of Design
4.3.1 Symmetry
4.3.2 Friction
4.4 Conclusions
4.5 Laboratory:How Fast Is Java?
5 Sorting
5.1 Approaching the Problem
5.2 Selection Sort
5.3 Insertion Sort
5.4 Mergesort
5.5 Quicksort
5.6 Radix Sort
5.7 Sorting Objects
5.8 Ordering Objects Using Comparators
5.9 Vector-Based Sorting
5.10 Conclusions
5.11 Laboratory:Sorting with Comparators
6 A Design Method
6.1 The Interface-Based Approach
6.1.1 Design of the Interface
6.1.2 Development of an Abstract Implementation
6.1.3 Implementation
6.2 Example:development of Generators
6.3 Example:Playing Cards
6.4 Conclusions
7 Iterators
7.1 Java’s Enumeration Interface
7.2 The Iterator Interface
7.3 Example:vector Iterators
7.4 Example:Rethinking Generators
7.5 Example:Filtering Iterators
7.6 Conclusions
7.7 Laboratory:The Two-Towers Problem
8 Lists
8.1 Example:A Unique Program
8.2 Example:Free Lists
8.3 Partial Implementation:Abstract Lists
8.4 Implementation:Singly Linked Lists
8.5 Implementation:Doubly Linked Lists
8.6 Implementation:Circularly Linked Lists
8.7 Implementation:Vectors
8.8 List Iterators
8.9 Conclusions
8.10 Laboratory:Lists with Dummy Nodes
9 Linear Structures
9.1 Stacks
9.1.1 Example:simulating Recursion
9.1.2 Vector-Based Stacks
9.1.3 List-Based Stacks
9.1.4 Comparisons
9.2 Queues
9.2.1 Example:Solving a Coin Puzzle
9.2.2 List-Based Queues
9.2.3 Vector-Based Queues
9.2.4 Array-Based Queues
9.3 Example:Solving Mazes
9.4 Conclusions
9.5 Laboratory:A Stack-Based Language
9.6 Laboratory:The Web Crawler
10 Ordered Structures
10.1 Comparable Objects Revisited
10.1.1 Example:Comparable Ratios
10.1.2 Example:Comparable Associations
10.2 Keeping Structures Ordered
10.2.1 The OrderedStructure Interface
10.2.2 The Ordered Vector and Binary Search
10.2.3 Example:Sorting Revisited
10.2.4 A Comparator-based Approach
10.2.5 The Ordered List
10.2.6 Example:The Modified Parking Lot
10.3 Conclusions
10.4 Laboratory:Computing the “Best Of”
11 Binary Trees
11.1 Terminology
11.2 Example:Pedigree Charts
11.3 Example:Expression Trees
11.4 Implementation
11.4.1 The BinaryTree Implementation
11.5 Example:An Expert System
11.6 Traversals of Binary Trees
11.6.1 Preorder Traversal
11.6.2 In-order Traversal
11.6.3 Postorder Traversal
11.6.4 Level-order Traversal
11.6.5 Recursion in Iterators
11.7 Property-Based Methods
11.8 Example:huffman Compression
11.9 Example Implementation:Ahnentafel
11.10 Conclusions
11.11 Laboratory:Playing Gardner’s Hex-a-Pawn
12 Priority Queues
12.1 The Interface
12.2 Example:Improving the Huffman Code
12.3 A Vector-Based Implementation
12.4 A Heap Implementation
12.4.1 Vector-Based Heaps
12.4.2 Example:Heapsort
12.4.3 Skew Heaps
12.5 Example:Circuit Simulation
12.6 Conclusions
12.7 Laboratory:Simulating Business
13 Search Trees
13.1 Binary Search Trees
13.2 Example:Tree Sort
13.3 Example:Associative Structures
13.4 Implementation
13.5 Splay Trees
13.6 Splay Tree Implementation
13.7 An Alternative:Red-Black Trees
13.8 Conculusions
13.9 Laboratory:Improving the BinarySearchTree
14 Maps
14.1 Example Revisited:The Symbol Table
14.2 The Interface
14.3 Simple Implementation:MapList
14.4 Constant time Maps:Hash Tables
14.4.1 Open Addressing
14.4.2 External chaining
14.4.3 Generation of Hash Codes
14.4.4 Hash Codes for Collection Classes
14.4.5 Performance Analysis
14.5 Ordered Maps and Tables
14.6 Example:Document Indexing
14.7 Conclusions
14.8 Laboratory:The Soundex Name Lookup System
15 Graphs
15.1 Terminology
15.2 The Graph Interface
15.3 Implementations
15.3.1 Abstract Classes Reemphasized
15.3.2 Adjacency Matrices
1 5.3.3 Adjacency Lists
15.4 Examles:Common Graph Algorithms
15.4.1 Reachability
15.4.2 Topological Sorting
15.4.3 Transitive Closure
15.4.4 All Pairs Minimum Distance
15.4.5 Greedy Algorithms
15.5 Conclusions
15.6 Laboratory:Converting Between Units
A Answers
A.1 Solutions to Self Check Problems
A.2 Solutions to Odd-Numbered Problems
B Beginning with Java
B.1 A First Program
B.2 Declarations
B.2.1 Primitive Types
B.2.2 Reference Types
B.3 Important Classes
B.3.1 The ReadStream Class
B.3.2 The PrintStream Class
B.3.3 Strings
B.4 Control Constructs
B.4.1 Conditional Statements
B.4.2 Loops
B.5 Methods
B.6 Inheritance and Subtyping
B.6.1 Inheritance
B.6.2 Subtyping
B.6.3 Interfaces and Abstract Classes
B.7 Use of the Assert Command
B.8 Use of the Keyword Protected
C Collections
C.1 Collection Class Features
C.2 Parallel Features
C.3 Conversion
D Documentation
D.1 Structure Package Hierarchy
D.2 Principles
E Environments
E.1 Downloading Software
E.2 Creating Libraries
E.3 Creating Project Stationery
F further Reading
G Glossary
Index