Data Structures and Algorithms Using Visual Basic.NET

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Cambridge University Press, Mar 7, 2005 - Computers
This is the first Visual Basic.NET book to provide a comprehensive discussion of the major data structures and algorithms. Here, instead of having to translate material on C++ or Java, the professional or student VB.NET programmer will find a tutorial on how to use data structures and algorithms and a reference for implementation using VB.NET for data structures and algorithms from the .NET Framework Class Library as well as those which must be developed by the programmer. In an object-oriented fashion, the author presents arrays and arraylists, linked lists, hash tables, dictionaries, trees, graphs, sorting and searching as well as more advanced algorithms, such as probabilistic algorithms and dynamic programming. His approach is very practical, for example using timing tests rather than Big O analysis to compare the performance of data structures and algorithms. This book can be used in both beginning and advanced computer programming courses that use the VB.NET language and, most importantly, by the professional VB programmer.
 

Contents

Collections
14
Chapter
16
Arrays and ArrayLists
46
Basic Sorting Algorithms
72
Chapter 4
86
Chapter 5
99
Chapter 6
124
Chapter 7
150
Chapter 11
227
Chapter 12
249
Chapter 13
268
Chapter 14
283
Chapter 15
298
Chapter 16
320
Chapter 17
340
References
379

Pattern Matching and Text Processing
181
Chapter 9
200

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About the author (2005)

Michael McMillan is an instructor of Computer Science at Pulaski Technical College in Arkansas. He has written a textbook on Perl programming and co-authored an introductory textbook on Visual Basic.NET. He has also published over twenty articles in different trade journals on computer programming in Visual Basic, Perl and VBScript.

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