Teaching programming -- circular data structures

[Chris Gonnerman]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bjorn Pettersen" <BPettersen at NAREX.com>


> We had the same problem teaching recursion to first year CS students, so
> I think it's pretty common. Once they got used to inductive proofs most
> of them seemed to "get it" however, so my current theory is that some
> sound CS theory makes for a better programmer <surprise ;-)>
> 
> You could always show him a fundamental data structures text that covers
> AVL or Red-Black trees <wink>.

I have a Red-Black tree implementation in Python at 

    http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/rbtree.html

... if anyone is interested ...


Chris Gonnerman -- chris.gonnerman at newcenturycomputers.net
http://newcenturycomputers.net