Introduction to Data structures

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DATA STRUCTURES

It is regarding the storage and retrieval of data from arrays or any type of data storages. It is one of the most fundamental subject in computer science. It is used for building efficient programs and software. It is mainly a way to search and retrieve data in different ways and also a way to store data in a computer.

In Other Words:

In computer Science, a data structure is a data organization management and storage format that enables the efficient access and modification for the dat

Some basic points to be noted:

• Each Data structure allows data to be stored in a specific manner
• It allows efficient data search and retrieval
• Specific data structures are decided to work for specific problems
• It allows us to manage a large amount of data such as large databases and indexing services such as hash.
• There are 2 main types of data Structures:
  1. Linear Data Structures
  2. Non-Linear Data structures

Arrays

An array is a collection of elements of the same type placed contagious memory locations that can be individually referenced by using an index to a unique identifier.

int main()
{
    int a[4] = {1,2,3,4};

    //This is an array data structure.
}

What is a data type:

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