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If you are a student with zero budget, the PDF will teach you more than a $200 modern textbook ever could. But if you have even $15, buy the used paperback. There is a tactile advantage to flipping between the diagram of a threaded binary tree and the code for a stack.
The book begins with the basics but quickly escalates. Unlike modern tutorials that might treat arrays as "simple lists," Horowitz explores memory allocation, sparse matrices, and polynomial representation using arrays. The treatment of linked lists is particularly notable for its exploration of memory management—a topic that is abstracted away in languages like Python or Java but crucial for understanding system performance in C/C++.
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: Author Sartaj Sahni has uploaded the Table of Contents and introductory chapters for public reference.
The book "Fundamentals of Data Structures in C" was first published in 1993 and has since become a classic in the field of computer science. The authors, Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahni, and Manashe Ben-Or, are well-known experts in the field of algorithms and data structures. The book is designed to be used as a textbook for a course on data structures, but it can also be used as a reference book for professionals.