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Identify data structure

Data structure

• Elementary items constitute a unit and that unit may be considered as a structure.

A structure may be treated as a frame or proforma where we organize some elementary items in different ways.

• Data structure is a structure or unit where we organize elementary data items in different ways.

That means, a data structure is a means of structural relationships of elementary data items for storing and retrieving data in computer’s memory.

• Usually elementary data items are the elements of a data structure.

• However, a data structure may be an element of another data structure. That means a data structure may contain another data structure.

Table of contents

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1. BackgRound
2. Array
3. Record
4. Linked List
5. Stack
6. Queue
7. Tree
8. Graph
9. Searching and sorting
10. Hashing
    

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