Who Is This Book For?

This book is ideal for several audiences:

• You’re a computer science student who wants a text that explains data structures and algorithms in plain English. This book can serve as a supplement to whatever “classic” textbook you happen to be using.

• You’re a beginning developer who knows basic programming but wants to learn the fundamentals of computer science to write better code and increase your programming knowledge and skills.

• You’re a self-taught developer who has never studied formal computer science (or a developer who did but forgot everything!) and wants to leverage the power of data structures and algorithms to write more scalable and elegant code.

Whoever you may be, I tried to write this book so that it can be accessed and enjoyed by people of all skill levels.