The Tomes of Delphi: algorithms and data structures

Julian Bucknall9781556227363, 1-55622-736-1

Delphi developer Julian Bucknall provides fellow developers a comprehensive overview of using algorithms and data structures from a practical perspective. Bucknall begins with a discussion of algorithm performance, and provides comprehensive coverage of such topics as arrays, linked lists, and binary trees. The book focuses on search algorithms-such as sequential and binary search-and sort algorithms-including bubble, insertion, Shell sort, quicksort, merge sort, and heapsort-along with techniques for optimization. Additionally, the author presents hashing and hash tables, priority queues, state machines and regular expressions, and data compression techniques such as Huffman and LZ77.