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Focusing on data abstraction and data structures, the second edition of this very successful books continues to emphasize the needs of both the instructor and the student. The book illustrates the role of classes and abstract data types (ADTs) in the problem-solving process as the foundation for an object-oriented approach. Throughout the text, the distinction between specification and implementation is continually stressed. The text covers major applications of ADTs, such as searching a flight map and performing an event-driven simulation. It also offers early, extensive coverage of recursion and uses this technique in many examples and exercises. Overall, the lucid writing style, widespread use of examples, and flexible coverage of the material have helped make this a leading book in the field. New in this Edition:
Uses recent enhancements to C++, such as data type bool and C++ strings
States ADT operations in English, specifies them in pseudocode, and finally implements them in C++. Students can see more clearly the progression from an informal statement of an operation to a more formal specification.
Offers new and revised examples of ADTs that clarify their relationships to classes as well as new coverage of dynamically allocated arrays and circuits
Provides more balance between numeric and nonnumeric examples of recursion
Contains many new exercises and programming problems
Customer Reviews:
Masterpiece.......2006-07-13
This book is a great book to learn data structures. The book should not be read by the absolute beginner and you should have a solid C++ foundation. I used this book for a distance learning data structures class and found every chapter to be well written. The book explains everything in great detail even without an instructor to guide you through you will achieve a solid foundation in data structures. The book has excellent examples of recursion, sorting, hashing, and binary trees. They explain the efficiency(in big O) of the sorts\searches and when to use them. This book is an easy read with great examples but in some cases it helps to do computations on paper or compile small examples so you can truly understand how the various data structures are working. The section on hashing greatly demystifies hashing algorithms and how they work. You can download the sample code from the web. These authors did an excellent job of delivering a clear and concise text on data structures. I would recommend this book to anyone serious about learning data structures and recursion.
Read it and keep it near for reference.......2004-12-10
This book is one of the best of its kind that I have read.
It is very descriptive and contains a lot of good examples on the subjects.
It describes the construction of a lot of the collection classes like lists, trees, queues etc. and how this is most efficiently sorted and structured.
Other subjects are graphs, the Big "O" Notation for evaluation of algorithm performance and a very good description on how and when to use recursion (The mirrors).
All subjects are described in detail with great examples.
To further test if the subjects have been understood a self-test section is at the end of each chapter (and the answers are in the back of book).
The reader of the book should have some knowledge of object-oriented design, but besides that the code is fairly easy to read.
In short it's a buy.
This is a great book "Data Abstraction....".......2004-11-08
"Algorithms and Data Structures" is a huge field.
Lot of algorithms and data structures are used in todays computer software of variuos types. Not all data structures or algorithms on them are adequate for solving a particular problem, so you must have some skills to say which one is "better" than another in your particular situation. Despite it's name, this book is an almost complete reference to achieve this skills.
"This is great book!!!!" I like it. ( ^.')
no complete code inside, messy descriptions.......2004-06-03
Before you read this book, I suggest that you have at least 2 years experiences on C++. Otherwise you will suffer from this book.
too wordy, not concise.......2004-02-26
This book repeats the same thing again and again, not so concise. I have the feeling of wasting my time when I read this book. no any pace....
After you spend several hours, you are still outside of topic.
Good book should save our time, not waste our time
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Reviewing a good book.......2002-09-21
Looking in the Mirror is a book about the different size churches and different denominations and their sizes. This book really helped me understand more about the size of my church and more about how to self - appraise my church. Self-appraisal is critical in a church because it will basically meet almost everyones need in church service and attendance. I would highly recommend this book to anyone in search of finding out more about their churh.
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This is a refreshing, unique, and fascinating look at how we feel about our homes, how we shape them to suit ourselves, why some homes make is feel safe and secure and at ease, and others make us paranoid and uncomfortable. This book, in my opinion, should be legally required reading for every architect, interior designer, and real estate agent. For the rest of us, it is a surprisingly interesting look at the meaning of home. Clare Cooper Marcus's extensive and detailed interviews with people living in all kinds of homes, from illegal shacks to mansions, provide eye-opening insights into what "home" is, and how to create the feeling of home for you. It's about time someone finally wrote this book!
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House as a Mirror of Self presents an unprecedented examination of our relationship to where we live, interwoven with compelling personal stories of the search for a place for the soul. Marcus takes us on a reverie of the special places of childhood—the forts we made and secret hiding places we had—to growing up and expressing ourselves in the homes of adulthood.
She explores how the self-image is reflected in our homes; power struggles in making a home together with a partner; territory, control, and privacy at home; self-image and location; disruptions in the boding with home; and beyond the "house as ego" to the call of the soul.
As our culture is swept up in home improvement to the extent of having an entire TV network devoted to it, this book is essential for understanding why the surroundings that we call home make us feel the way we do. With this information we can embark on home improvement that truly makes room for our soul.
Customer Reviews:
House As a Mirror of Self: Exploring the Deeper Meaning of Home.......2007-07-18
Have you every just fallen in love with a house, knowing that you were meant to live there? Have you ever had an apartment that seemed to suck the energy right from your body after a long hard day at work? Are there certain places in your home that are "yours" or "your spouse's"?
Unconsciously we are all seeking to become our genuine selves. In this quest, we tend to surround ourselves with ideals, examples of what we feel matches our deepest parts of ourselves. These examples come primarily from past experience. For instance, we may have had a special place in a childhood home where we felt safe, loved, and free. Alternately, we may subconsciously associate a large dining room with sadness after the loss of a parent or unvoiced hostility in a dysfunctional family setting.
House As A Mirror of Self brought to light many of the things that I had forgotten in my childhood and many of the situations that I hadn't really thought about. It is truly interesting what you gravitate towards because of your previous experiences and how those decisions get combined and complicated with that of your spouse. I even figured out why I was feeling that there was something not quite right about my home office.
This is a very cool book........2007-01-05
I loved this book for its ordinariness with a subject that can be extraordinary and difficult to grasp at times. The writings of Clare Cooper Marcus helped define and hone many inner qualities in a very immediate manner. This book is like having a compassionate friend sitting with me.
Disappointing.......2004-05-21
This reads more like a textbook for an interior design course. It has little to do with the psychology of your own choice of home/setting. Like another reviewer said, the idea seemed fascinating, but the book disappoints right away, if not for the setup alone; the author overuses the same phrases and form to setup her next example. It is as though this were her thesis for design school. It could also pass for a really good new age book, that's how problem-centered it is. If you have watched "Designing for the Sexes" on HGTV, you have read this book. This book is only interesting and appropriate for interior designers, not for anyone seeking insight into our needs and choices when it comes to home.
Enlightening.......2002-11-12
I found this book when I was undergoing my own deep personal transformation ten years ago. It helped me understand my own relationship to the homes I had created for clients and my self. As an interior designer and a contractor it is important to understand the calling of the client's psyche and meet those needs. There is so much focus now on the spiritual aspects of one's home, and feng shui does offer up its own insights, but using this book as a primer for understanding what is calling to you will lead you to a different more integrated understanding. A carpenter builds a house, the family makes it a home. Clare gives the reader a path to understanding this complex yet simple process. The book is easy to read and offers many good exercises to dialog with the inner self. I highly recommend it to designers and psychologist alike.
Grossly overrated.......2001-11-16
I have an advanced degree in psychology and I have renovated several houses. The concept behind this book seemed fascinating to me. However, I have been very disappointed. The focus is on psychology written by an architect. She is an amateur psychologist--it would have been better if she had focused on her own area of expertise. It was a waste of money.
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"You should not overlook the potential genius in this concept."
--Geoffrey Moore, consultant and author, Dealing with Darwin
"Since he first identified 'information systems as mirrors of the people who build them' for me, I have seen it operate in many ways. It is a fascinating idea, and a completely new way of thinking about technology."
--Sean Moriarty, Chief Operating Officer, Ticketmaster
"This book makes for compelling reading--it's easy to become immersed in the stories, and the insights gradually grow in the reader's mind as they take root in the character's minds. This is quite a useful work. The ideas presented here could be quickly put to practical use in any organization."
--Mohamed Muhsin, VP and CIO, The World Bank
A breakthrough exploration of information systems as mirrors of the people who build them.
Packed with truer-than-life stories, stimulating characters, and unique IT analysis, Lessons in Grid Computing finally declares:
* Our systems will not "talk to each other" if our people are not talking to each other
* We must transform ourselves to the same degree that we want to transform our systems
* To correct problems in our information systems, we must first address the problems between the people that build and support them
Discover how to adjust your management style to enable the next generation of technologies with the help of Lessons in Grid Computing.
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Blends storytelling with IT analysis and business insights.......2006-12-11
Lessons in Grid Computing: The System Is a Mirror blends storytelling with IT analysis and business insights to attract any with affection for computer systems and management alike. The author believes IT systems are mirrors reflecting the dysfunctions and concepts of those who design and manage technology: chapters use fictional surveys to chart real struggles to overcome technical and management issues as a result of such a focus. The idea that computer and social systems are entwined isn't new: what is new is the identification of 'grid computing' to allow readers to understand how this affects organizational structure and achievement.
Diane C. Donovan
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Different than what I expected, but far better..........2006-11-18
When I ordered this book, I expected it to be a compilation or a series of chapters on the promise of grid computing. What I got was something far different, and much more interesting... Lessons in Grid Computing: The System Is a Mirror by Stuart Robbins. Definitely worth reading and pondering (yes, I do ponder once in awhile)...
Contents:
1. The Prime Theorem - Information Systems Mirror the People that Build Them
2. Interfaces - How The Work and What Happens When They Are Broken
3. Relationship Management - We Can No Longer Manage the System as Single Nodes
4. Virtualization - A Natural Stage in the Maturity Cycle of Technologies
5. Orchestration - Finding a Sensible Order Amid Too Many Complications to Count
6. Complexity - Databases, Passwords, Collaboration, Funding, Smashed Atoms, and a Professor
7. Distributed Resources - Two Types of Diffusion - Compute Resources and Human Capital
8. Flash Teams - Analysis of New Organizational Groups from Several Perspectives
9. Network as Narrative Form - Basic Building Blocks Connected to Create Various Structures
10. Identity - Finding the Needle in the Haystack and Giving It a Name
11. Organizational Architecture - How we Organize Ourselves Is as Important as What We Say and Do
12. (Theory of) Resonant Usability - Everything Is Moving to the Presentation Layer, Where Humans Interact
13. Turbulence - Creating Stability in the Face of Chaotic Disruption
14. Libraries - Two Lives, Two Windows, and the Search for Information
15. Abstraction - Lift Yourself Above the Conflicting Details and Look for Similarity
16. Insubordination as an Asset - Why You Must Allow Employees to Disagree with Your Decisions
17. The Consortium - The Multisourced IT Organization and a Software Commons - Our Future
18. The Everysphere - An Example of Synchronous Events between "Unrelated" Objects
19. Q Narratives - Understand the Story and You Will Understand the Business Process
20. Leaving Flatland - To Adjust Somehow after Learning That Your World Has Another Dimension
21. We Are The Platform - Some Final Observations about the System and the Mirror
Index
Normally I wouldn't go into that level of detail on the table of contents, but I felt the single word chapter headings didn't give a flavor for what was going on. Robbins' premise is our information systems are mirrors of the people and groups that build them, and that management styles must change in order to build and facilitate the next level and generation of computing technology. In other words, "the systems won't talk to each other if the people are not talking to each other." All well and good, and you could easily spend 300 pages in a technical or philosophical discussion on that. But Robbins has effectively written a loosely coupled novel that takes these subjects and explores them in the lives, relationships, and companies of a series of individuals. At first, each chapter seems to be a short story on its own. But soon, characters from previous chapters start showing up in the lives of people in later chapters. And in fact, the last two chapters loop around and shed a whole new light on earlier interactions. And not all chapters are even in the same style. There's one chapter (Libraries) that maintains a story on the top half of each page, and a running monologue of the writer critiquing the story on the lower half. Very different, but strangely effective.
The overall theme explored in all the chapters is that a grid system of technology requires a grid system of management and interaction with others. Without that in place, the power of grid computing will not be fully realized. For instance, The Consortium explores a concept where a group of companies arrange to share technology and fill gaps for each other. Company A might have plenty of disk space but not much excess computing power, where company B needs more offsite backup capacity but has CPU cycles to spare. Might they form a grid and become more effective at no additional cost to either party? Simple example, but a powerful concept that can be extended to human resources. My expert DBA can work with your company on adhoc projects in his free cycles while I have access to your security specialist to help me figure out my sticky problems. Neither of us has to hire contractors that take weeks to get hired and up to speed, and we each benefit from the combined expertise.
The book does wander into some (in my opinion) overly philosophical issues at times, but the overall effect of the book with its story format is very compelling. The author does say that "pondering" the chapters is recommended, and I agree. It's a book that will definitely cause to you think about how technology will be structured in the next decade and beyond...
Practical Technology Meets Fiction.......2006-10-05
Despite my being someone with a non-technical background, I found myself loving this book, on a number of different levels, as it puts into practical and realistic stories the many complex theories, applications, and fundamental truths that are at the core of information technology and those people and organizations that make it tick.
Having met dozens of CIO's and VP's of Development at firms both huge and small, I never fully understood the context within which they existed until now. Stuart is a practical visionary, and I can honestly say "Lessons in Grid Computing" is probably the most enlightening book I've read all year.
If You Lead an IT Group, Read This Book.......2006-09-06
If you lead an IT group you will learn something from this book, and it will be so simple that it will change how you see your job from hereafter. I recommend it to anyone who has been around the industry for even just a few years. Stuart Robbins writes as an outsider who clearly has a lot of insider information, when in fact he is an insider with an outsider's perspective. Either way, you're likely see something from your experience presented here in a different light. I will also recommend this book to anyone looking to further enhance their career opportunities in today's quick-paced, technology-enhanced world. The title is misleading in a way. This book is not about technology per se. It is about how we manage technology, and how we might prepare to manage it differently, as both technology and the population that supports it continue to evolve.
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Asia- Pacific Cases in Strategic Management
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In this timely and thought-provoking collection, seasoned educators and cultural theorists examine the connection between youth violence and the realities faced by many children-poverty, racism, unequal opportunity, and the media's glorification of violence.
Customer Reviews:
Student review.......2001-07-05
I agree that this is a very timely and important book and it raises a lot of issues that other books on this topic ignore. But it is not always easy to read. I was assigned this book for an undergraduate college course and I did find a couple of the chapters, especially "Rated CV for Cool Violence" and "Masculinity Matters" and the beginning part of "The Psychology of Violence" a bit difficult to read because they were more technical than some ofthe others. Having a professor to help us understand it and discuss it in class was helpful, as were many of the explanatory definitions and footnotes. Some of what you learn in this book is also very upsetting, especially Spina's comparisons of statistical reports and the horrors described by Freire and Macedo, but if you are upset by it, the book has started to do what the authors set out to do. If you are interested in teaching or in learning about school violence, you should read several books with different viewpoints on the topic but this should definitely be one of them. It is, for the most part, a "student-friendly" book and one of two I had to read last semester that I am not likely to re-sell to the bookstore any time soon.
A POWERFUL, PROVOCATIVE, BOOK YOU MUST READ!.......2001-06-22
Spina et.al. have written an important, comprehensive and highly readable book that fearlessly and intelligently addresses the issues and mechanisms underlying and contributing to local and global violence.
The authors of the ten chapters here take us on an eye-opening journey that raises serious questions about present violence prevention and intervention practices in schools. They argue that current efforts are ineffective because they treat the symptoms, not the causes, of violence. Contributors range from students (in Jennifer Obidah's chapter and Spina's introduction) and a former gang-member-turned-educator (Charles Hernandez) to those who work in the trenches as teachers, researchers, and social workers (Donna Gaines, Jessie Klein, Lynn Chancer, Zeus Leonardo, Ricky Lee Allen, and the editor) to world renowned scholars and educators (e.g. Paulo Freire, Donaldo Macedo, Stanley Aronowitz, Peter McLaren, Henry Giroux). Stephanie Urso Spina and the contributors to "Smoke and Mirrors" give us a range of voices, experiences, and insights into the relationship between local and global violence, cultural categorization, and national ideology and policy. "Smoke and Mirrors" is a sophisticated yet accessible collection of essays that puts violence in a social and cultural context and untangles the web of political deciept and mismanagement that feed the true roots of violence.
This book should be read by parents, educators, social workers, criminal justice workers, and anyone (which is everyone) affected by or concerned about violence.
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This digital document is an article from Fairfield County Business Journal, published by Westfair Communications, Inc. on June 10, 1991. The length of the article is 1126 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Allied Glass & Mirror polishes its image as it fights for independents. (privately-owned glass service company stays independent)
Author: Joan Stableford
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Publisher: Westfair Communications, Inc.
Volume: v22
Issue: n21
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Beyond the Smoke and Mirrors: Turmoil in the PPM Industry
William R. Dexheimer
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Hard to follow.......1999-02-16
I believe it contained information that nobody but the people in those companies such aas MedPartners. I only read the book because I know of the author and am related to someone that worked for MedPartners who had the book. For the author, time will tell if he took the opportunity and apparently a lot of money to start his new company to believe him.
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Title: CEO's financial freefall mirrors Ram Venture's: creditors pursue chief of bankrupt firm, claim financials overstated.(Ram Venture Holdings Corp., John T. Lewis)
Author: Mark Friedman
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Title: Check rearview mirror on terrorism risks. (Financial Insights).(demand for terrorism insurance likely to decrease)(Brief Article)
Author: Sean F. Mooney
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