Data Structures Tutorial

Welcome to the Data Structures Tutorial. This website provides a comprehensive guide to understanding various data structures and algorithms.

What is Data Structure?

→ Data can be arranged in many ways, logical or mathematical arrangement of a data is called Data structure.

Examples: Array, LinkedList, Stack, Queue, Tree, Graph and many more.

What is an Algorithm?

→ Sequence of steps performed on the data using efficient data structures to solve a given problem.

Example: Sorting an Array.

Classification of Data Strycture?

Types of Data Structures

a. Primitive and Non-Primitive Data Structure

b. Static and Dynamic Data Structure

c. Persistent and Ephemeral Data Structure

Non-Primitive further Divided into two Types:

i). Linear Data Structure

ii). Non-Linear Data Structure

Persistent further Divided into three types:

i). Partially Persistent

ii). Fully Persistent

iii). Confluently Persistent

Data Structure Operations:

The following four operations play a major role:

1. Traversing:
Accessing each record exactly once so that certain items in the record may be processed.
2. Searching:
Finding the location of the record with a given key value.
3. Inserting:
Adding a new record to the structure.
4. Deleting:
Removing a record from the structure.
5. Merging:
Combining the records in two different sorted files into a single sorted file.
6. Sorting:
Arranging the record in some logical order.
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