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I really appreciated this resource for learning Python for interviewing.

My only criticism is in some cases particularly with the more advanced structures (graphs, trees) it approaches the matter as a literal translation of "data structures with python", as opposed to "pythonic data structures". A lazy example is probably Linked Lists which don't really serve any purpose in Python. Presumably that was the intention?

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This book is used as the second course in the CS program at Luther College. At this point in the program python is the only language that students are assumed to be familiar with. The point of this book is to gain an understanding of how these data structures behave rather than implementing them in perfect python, so your critique is absolutely warranted. I'll suggest a "Pythonic data structures" version of the book to Brad for those looking to learn good python conventions.

Well yes you guessed it, you are supposed to learn data structures, but I agree that the domain name interactive python really does signal something different.

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