Data Structures and Algorithms are considered to be one of the important areas in computer science.They both are really important to all who want to pursue a degree in ComputerScience.They both co-exist together.So it's necessary for the student community to study these subjects very well.....The saddest part is that the teachers who handles this subject in many colleges are itself not well versed in this subject.I am a student of those sort...Don't judge your knowledge in that subject by the marks which you get in the semester...There are lot of resources available in the net for studying DataStructures and Algorithms.....There are many online video lectures by very great researchers at MIT...You can download those videos from
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engin...5/LectureNotes/ ..... All the videos available there can be viewed only online...To download those videos you need to download HIDownload Download Manager...Just google it ...You can download the evaluation version...
You can also download videos of another famous author Sartaj Sahni.....
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~sahni/cop3530/lectures.htm ....These videos are also downloadable with the HIDownload Manager....
It's important yo have a very strong mathematics funda to study algorithms....You have to be thoriugh with Relations,Functions,Set Theory and should have done a course on Discrete Structures....Besides studying this subject theoratically you have to be good at Programming...It's very important to have very good programming skills and a sharp apptitude...
There are many websites which conduct online algorithm competition...If you think you are good at Programming try competiting st www.topcoder.com...You should be either good at JAVA or should have known STL in C++....You can also code in VB...It's really to solve these problems here...If you could solve these problems,it means you are good at Data Structures and Algorithms....
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