Preface xt 1 Introduction to Data Structure 1 2 Review of Concepts of 'C++' 15 3 Sparse Matrix 49 4 Concepts of Class 59 5 Stack 91 6 Queue 129 7 Linked List 167 8 TREE 249 9 Graph 295 10 Searching and Sorting 349 11 Hashing 391 Index 397

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