The third edition of this conceptually elegant and pedagogically innovative text continues to incorporate the object-oriented design paradigm, using Java as the implementation language, while also providing intuition and analysis of fundamental data structures and algorithms. All of this is done in a clear, friendly writing style that uses visuals to introduce and simplify important analytic and mathematical concepts. * Entirely new chapter on recursion * Additional exercises on the analysis of simple algorithms * New case study on parenthesis matching and HTML validation