Keyvan Nayyeri

I think it’s quite a long while since Granville Barnett and Luca Del Tongo started their work on writing a free book about data structures and algorithms based on modern programming languages.

You may know that I have a serious passion for practices and data structures and algorithms have been a very important interest for me. Due to this, I always kept an eye on Granville’s feed because he often has some cool stuff to share about data structures and algorithms. Today he finally announced the first draft of the book available for public download for free.

Of course, as Granville says, this first draft is not supposed to be very thorough but it was a good decision to publish something for the audience and reactive the project.

On behalf of the community, I have to thank Granville and Luca for the invaluable work that they have done on this free book. I think it’s very helpful to have a book on this topic based on modern programming languages and some of the new features included in these languages. Moreover, they have made this book completely free which is a big advantage for it.

In my opinion it’s very important for any developer to know these principles and this book can be a good reference for those who want to save their time from adapting data structures from older programming languages to some modern languages like C# or Java.

Data Structures and Algorithms book is sponsored and hosted by DotNetSlackers, one of the communities that I have been contributing to, and the first draft of the book is available in PDF format for you.

There is also an open source project by authors of the book hosted on CodePlex for common data structures that can be a good resource for further examination.

I really appreciate the work by the authors and just wanted to spread the word somehow. I also hope that more and more readers come and assist them to improve the content for the next updates.