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+yasi
+====
+
+Yet Another Skiena Implementation
+
+This is an ongoing project where I am writing various data structures and algorithms in C++, loosely following the content of the Algoirhtms Manual book by Steven Skiena.
+
+The code is written using standard C++ in Microsoft Visual Studio 2013. Code is tested using Google C++ framework.
+
+Data Structures (So Far)
+========================
+* Singly/Doubly linked lists with iterators
+* Binary tree
+* Heap and Priority Queue
+    + regular
+    + mutable (where you can change keys of existing elements)
+* Binary search tree (BST)
+* Dictionary based on BST
+* Hash tables 
+  + Linear probing 
+  + Separate chaining 
+  + Hop Scotch
+* Graph (adjacency list)
+
+Coming soon: Locality sensitive hashing (LSH)
+
+Algorithms
+==========
+Graph Algorithms: 
+  * BFS
+
+Coming soon: Approximate near neighbor search using LSH
+
+Authors and Contributors
+========================
+Right now, there is only one author: Saad Quader (@saq10002)