Designed to comply with the syllabus guidelines presented by the association of Computing Machinery, the textbook gives students taking the CS103 Data Structures and Algorithms course plenty of code examples and templates needed for successful completion. McAllister has been teaching computer courses for over 30 years, and he provides almost 300 figures that illustrate how Java be used in many data structures (array-based, restricted, hashed, etc.). A review of Java is provided for programmers who may have experience with other languages but are new to this format. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)