Anyone know any good Data Structure books?

[q_006]

suggestions would be very appreciated.
anything that will give a very thorough explanation of such things like:
AVL, skip lists, red-black, Djistrka, etc.

thanks.

[Phantom]

Djistrka

Do you mean Dijkstra? If so you must really be into anagrams.

Anyway, you may want to check out "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein.

These kinds of books are very expensive. I think the best thing you can do is go to a library and browse through a couple of these books and see which one appeals to you before buying one.

[Shapyi]

I have "Data Structures & Algorithm Analysis in C++" by Mark Allen Weiss that has all those topics. It is my text book for my Data Structures and Algorithms course. Its basically Comp Sci III. I must warn you, like all college text books its expensive.

[Octo]

"Introduction to Algorithms" is a very good book about all kind of algorithms and data structures, but you have to mention that everything in this book is written in "pseudo-language" and not in a normal programming language.
I got the book for about 40 Euros because we bought it through university.

[Fosters]

Yeah Ive got the Weiss book too (well the Ada version anyway - yes I do code in Ada ) and its pretty good at explaining things.

It is a uni text book but you should be able to pickup one for half the price second hand.