Book excerpt: In this second edition of his successful book, experienced teacher and author Mark Allen Weiss continues to refine and enhance his innovative approach to algorithms and data structures. Written for the advanced data structures course, this text highlights theoretical topics such as abstract data types and the efficiency of algorithms, as well as performance and running time. Before covering algorithms and data structures, the author provides a brief introduction to C++ for programmers unfamiliar with the language. Dr Weiss's clear writing style, logical organization of topics, and extensive use of figures and examples to demonstrate the successive stages of an algorithm make this an accessible, valuable text. New to this Edition *An appendix on the Standard Template Library (STL) *C++ code, tested on multiple platforms, that conforms to the ANSI ISO final draft standard 0201361221B04062001