Alternatives to two classic data structures

  • Authors:
  • Chris Okasaki

  • Affiliations:
  • United States Military Academy, West Point, NY

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 36th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Red-black trees and leftist heaps are classic data structures that are commonly taught in Data Structures (CS2) and/or Algorithms (CS7) courses. This paper describes alternatives to these two data structures that may offer pedagogical advantages for typical students.