The book is designed to teach you where and how to use data-structures and algorithms to solve problems. While it does talk about many of them, the explanations

The book is designed to teach you where and how to use data-structures and algorithms to solve problems. While it does talk about many of them, the explanations are a bit spotty, and are not a great introductory read. You'd want to read a better introductory book before this if you aren't comfortable with them.