Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms Before introducing data structures we should understand that computers do store, retrieve, and process a large amount of data. If the data is stored in well organized way on storage media and in computer's memory then it can be accessed quickly for processing that further reduces the latency and the user is provided fast response. Data structure introduction refers to a scheme for organizing data, or in other words a data structure is an arrangement of data in computer's memory in such a way that it could make the data quickly available to the processor for required calculations. A data structure should be seen as a logical concept that must address two fundamental concerns. First, how the data will be stored, and second, what operations will be performed on it? As data structure is a scheme for data organization so the functional definition of a data structure should be independent of its implementation. The functional defin...
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Data Structures
Introduction to Data Structures Data Structure is a way of collecting and organising data in such a way that we can perform operations on these data in an effective way. Data Structures is about rendering data elements in terms of some relationship, for better organization and storage. For example, we have data player's name "Virat" and age 26. Here "Virat" is of String data type and 26 is of integer data type. We can organize this data as a record like Player record. Now we can collect and store player's records in a file or database as a data structure. For example: "Dhoni" 30, "Gambhir" 31, "Sehwag" 33 In simple language, Data Structures are structures programmed to store ordered data, so that various operations can be performed on it easily. Basic types of Data Structures As we discussed above, anything that can store data can be called as a data strucure, hence Integer, Float, Boolean, Char etc, all are d...