Intended for second semester computer science students, this textbook on Java programming examines the details of data structures in relation to application development with this popular programming language. Beginning with a review of basic Java principles, the work covers topics such as flat files, arrays and linked lists, collections, estimating asymtotic efficiency, recursion, tree and sorting, searching, and graphs. Chapters include illustrations, code examples, summaries and exercise questions. Buell is a professor of computer science at the University of South Carolina. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)