INTRODUCTION TO DATA STRUCTURE - A SHORT PREVIEW

DATA STRUCTURE

There is a whole idea of explaining the term 'DATA STRUCTURE'.  

GeeksforGeeks says that Data Structure is a particular way of organizing data in a computer so that it can be used effectively.

According to Wikipedia, data structure is a data organization, management and storage format that enables efficient access and modification.  More precisely,  a data structure is a collection of data values, relationships among them and the functions and operations that can be applied to data.

According to SearchSQLServer, data structure is a specialized format for organizing, processing, retrieving and storing data.  Eventhough there are several basic and advanced structure types, any data structure is designed to arrange data to suit the specific need.

According to studytonight, data structure is a way of collecting and organizing data in such a way that we can perform operations on these data in an effective way.

APPLICATION OF DATA STRUCTURES

There are a whole types of data structures you can discover:

An Array is a number of elements in a specific order.

A linked list is a linear collection of data elements of any type, called nodes and each node has its self value and points to the next node in the linked list.

A record (also known as struct or tuple) is an aggregate data structure and it contains other values.

A union specifies which of a number permitted types are stored in its instances. ex:float, int..

An object contains data fields, various methods which operate on the data contents.



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