Data Structures and Algorithms in Python Hardcover – 5 July 2013

Delivery was satisfactory, and the book itself has all the material you need for python, but honestly I find the internet to be much easier to work from

Whilst this gives a great in depth introduction to data structures in Python, it is lacking in its presentation of the code.For example in the chapter on Trees the theoretical content is great but the examples are badly presented. Implementations are not complete and data types are not explicitly presented via an example of their use. Which is a shame as in many way the best way to learn is by seeing a complete working implementation first.So whilst I get the whole learn by working it out philosophy, this is better done with access to somebody who can answer your questions rather than a book.

While the theoretical presentation is good, the actual code is overly engineered and twisted. For example having separate Position and _Node classes for binary trees is needlessly complicating the code and the inheritance structure.