Next semester I'm going to be teaching my first Computer Science course: Data Structures.
Can anyone suggest one of the better textbooks for this topic so I can have some extra input when ordering the books for the class?
I have no language requirements imposed on me, so I can teach the course in any language I choose. So, it doesn't matter to me what language the book demonstrates the various data structures in as long as the actual books quality is good.
TAOCP -- trust me, some parts are actually quite readable.
Ullman -- less known, but I loved every bit of it.
CLR -- as mentioned is a must have.
Mark Allen Weiss is good too.
Tarjan is offbeat probably, but a good read (though I have not read it).
Can't guess by the name, but the best book to my opinion is the classic "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein. I've learned from it both in my data structures and algorithms courses, and my copy has been useful many years afterwards.
You can find it in
http://books.google.com/books?id=NLngYyWFl_YC
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Cormen/dp/0262032937
It's not cheap, but worth every penny.
David
I used this one in undergrad and it's on my bookshelf to this day. I'd label it 'good':
Data Structures and Program Design in C
Kruse, Leung, Tondo
Prentice Hall publishers.