The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures

The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures
by Julian Bucknall

The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures
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Author: Julian Bucknall
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Format: Illustrated
Published: 2001-05
ISBN: 1556227361
Number of pages: 525
Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.

Book Reviews of The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures

Book Review: Surprisingly very readable, and useable day to day
Summary: 5 Stars

I still think of myself as being a beginning programmer, although that's not totally true, having messed around for about ten years with CAD macro's and dbase add-ons and turned them into full-blown applications that finally became fairly complex. However, I never had a decent IT training beyond some basics in Fortran and Algol, and know next to nothing about OOP.

I first thought Bucknall's book would not be for me, as I was afraid of landing into high level topics and getting lost in jargon.

On the contrary, I hardly can stop reading the book, which finally provides a very practical approach to Delphi/Kylix programming, giving light to many abstract topics you will not find in most books : the trade-off between speed and memory efficiency, how data structures and the mix you make of them in your application affect your program's speed and reliability, easy steps that make debugging and testing more efficient,...

Once you've got the hang of using the VCL within Delphi and know how to place controls on a form, you can immensely benefit from this book, that can be used as a reference into many algorithms and their Delphi implementation, or can be read chapter by chapter as an introduction to analyse the merits of several ways to sort/search/hash or use various data structures to solve a problem you face as a programmer.

Julian Bucknall's text is very understandable, even to non english native speakers, stays close to the topic while providing you with a wide scope of insights into related subjects. He's also keen on giving you all the tips he can coming from his personal practice as a programmer that make you understand why some theoretical topics matter to your program's quality. It's nearly like having him looking over your shoulder and helping you making the best choices. The book provides you with a real simple alternative to searching the web multiple times or trying to translate C coded algorithms into a Delphi equivalent, hence it will be a time saver to many Delphi user's, even a casual one like me.

This book is a must have, as a complement to a good Delphi / Pascal reference.

Summary of The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures

Delphi developer Julian Bucknall provides fellow developers a comprehensive overview of using algorithms and data structures from a practical perspective. Bucknall begins with a discussion of algorithm performance, and provides comprehensive coverage of such topics as arrays, linked lists, and binary trees. The book focuses on search algorithms?such as sequential and binary search?and sort algorithms?including bubble, insertion, Shell sort, quicksort, merge sort, and heapsort?along with techniques for optimization. Additionally, the author presents hashing and hash tables, priority queues, state machines and regular expressions, and data compression techniques such as Huffman and LZ77.

The companion CD contains the author?s highly successful freeware library EZDSL, source code compatible with all versions of Delphi and with Kylix, and executables from TurboPower Software Company.

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