Pothering G.J., Naps T.L. Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis with C++

Pws Pub Co., 1995. — 672 p. — ISBN: 0314045740, 9780314045744This book is one of the worst text books I have ever used! It is not worth the space it takes up let alone the trees which were ruthlessly massacred to create its pages. In fact, I would like to see the book converted to pure energy in some giant nuclear explosion and fed slowly to a black hole. The following adjectives may be used to describe this book: boring, unreadable, inaccurate, illogical, non-user-friendly, unorganized, and mind-numbing. The sample programs are rediculous and do nothing to show you things you need to know. The eternal typewritten mumblings of the author drone on and on for eternity, and I would rather watch concrete cure than read this book. (Although my brain did feel like concrete when I had finished it [Not strong concrete, just an ugly gray mass of brittle defective stone]) In addition, the author continuously makes references to pipe organs and volvos, for no necessary reason, both of which I deeply despise.