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A Book of Data Structures
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Structural Bestiary

Structural Bestiary is a guide for data structures. Although we aim to include as many important data structures as possible, we assume that readers are familiar with the basic data structures (i.e. lists, hashes, and graphs) that the Bestiary will build upon.

Our goal for this is that we realized that there are few websites or textbooks that have a good overall listing and analysis of data structures. Many algorithms textbooks such as CLRS include information about data structures but few of them directly focus on data structures. We also know about [Purely Functional Data Structures] (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/theses/okasaki.pdf) which approaches data structures from a functional perspective. Since there are already algorithms and and functional focused data structure guides, the Structural Bestiary will focus on data structures from an imperative/object oriented background.