Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms: JavaScript Data Structures and algorithms can help you solve complex development problems – learn how by exploring a huge range of JavaScript data types

Loiane Avancini

Oct 2014 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Key Features

Book DescriptionIf you are a JavaScript developer or someone who has basic knowledge of JavaScript, and want to explore its optimum ability, this fast-paced book is definitely for you. Programming logic is the only thing you need to know to start having fun with algorithms.What you will learn

• Declare, initialize, add, and remove items from arrays, stacks, and queues
• Create and use the most complex data structure, graphs, along with DFS and BFS algorithms
• Grasp the power of linked lists, doubly linked lists, and circular linked lists
• Store unique elements with hash tables, dictionaries, and sets
• Explore the applications of binary trees and binary search trees
• Sort data structures using bubble sort, selection sort, insertion sort, merge sort, and quick sort
• Search elements in data structures using sequential sort and binary search
• Understand the importance of big O notation, dynamic programming, and greedy algorithms

Who this book is for

Ratings and reviews

The book is good and I learned a lot, though there are typos and a few places where decisions around specific code usage that makes no sense to me (for instance, applying key/value pairs to an array object, where a simple object or dictionary should have been used...) that makes learning it a bit more confusing. The biggest reason this loses a star, though, is because IT IS MISSING AN ENTIRE CHAPTER (Chapter 11). The Amazon version is also missing a whole chapter; if I had known this I would have bought a different book... I would have liked to go to the advanced topic/big O notation portion despite having studied it elsewhere...

About the author

Loiane Groner has over 10 years of experience in developing enterprise applications. Currently, she works as a business analyst and a Java/HTML5/JavaScript developer at an American financial institution. She is passionate about technology, publishes articles on her blog, and has presented talks at conferences about Java, ExtJS, Cordova, Ionic, TypeScript and Angular. She is a Google Developer Expert in Web Technologies and Angular, and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional in Visual Studio and Development Technologies. She has also authored other Packt books.