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Title: File Structures: An Object-Oriented Approach with C++ (3rd Edition) by Michael J. Folk, Bill Zoellick, Greg Riccardi ISBN: 0-201-87401-6 Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $92.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Good for concepts, bad for programming...
Comment: If you need a book that just covers the concepts, this will do the job well... I used this book in a File Processing Class, and found it was not bad, but I did have to use other sources to actually code the different concepts. Of course this is to be expected unless you use the exact same compiler that the author uses, and since C++ is still "new", even version changes might leave the authors coding examples obsolete...
In summary, a good reference book for the concepts, but don't buy it if your looking for concrete examples of the actual code. (In fairness, for me, once I learned the concept, it was not hard to actually program it)..
Rating: 3
Summary: 5 stars for the text, 1 star for the code.
Comment: The book is a great introduction to file structures concepts like representation on disk, issues of record deletion, indexing with B-trees, and hashing techniques. The book is very readable and the examples make sense. (For some more advanced reading, especially in the area of hashing, check out Alan Tharpe's "File Organization and Processing".)
Unfortunately, I found myself cringing numerous times at the code. There are many places where it is obvious that the authors have only basic C++ knowledge. For example, a pointer from strdup is deleting using the non-bracketed delete operator. That will produce undefined behavior according to the C++ standard. There are many issues like this in the code. Also, there are many performance issues with the code. I would have preferred that the authors use pseudocode instead and discussed object-oriented design in a language agnostic way.
All that said, this is still a good book about file structures if you just ignore the shoddy code. The presentation of concepts is very readable, I breezed through the book in no time and came away with new knowledge.
Rating: 5
Summary: easy to use
Comment: i love this book...used it in my file structures course obviously, and i found it very useful
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Title: Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis in C++ (2nd Edition) by Mark Allen Weiss ISBN: 0201361221 Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Pub. Date: 01 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $105.00 |
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Title: A Programmer's View of Computer Architecture: With Assembly Language Examples from the Mips Risc Architecture by James Goodman, Karen Miller ISBN: 0195131096 Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 January, 1993 List Price(USD): $91.95 |
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Title: File Organization and Processing by Alan L. Tharp ISBN: 0471605212 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: January, 1988 List Price(USD): $68.95 |
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Title: Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter Baer Galvin ISBN: 0471250600 Publisher: Wiley Pub. Date: 08 March, 2002 List Price(USD): $95.95 |
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Title: Concepts of Programming Languages, Sixth Edition by Robert W. Sebesta ISBN: 0321193628 Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Pub. Date: 24 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $109.00 |
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