Do You Know, What is Data Structure?
Hello Friends, From today's post we will start the Data Structure tutorial and will understand this in very easy and fun way. So, let's start this..
What is Data Structure?
Data structure is a systematic way to organize data in order to use it efficiently. That means, organizing data in that way so that we can access the data very easily.
Data structure is not any language as C,C++,JAVA etc. rather this is the set of algorithms which we use to design/structure the data in any programming language.
Data structure is main part of many computer science algorithms through which a programmers handle the data properly. This plays a key role in better performance of program or software.
Characteristics of a Data Structure:
- Data structure implementation should implement its interface correctly.
- Running time or execution time of operations of data structure must be as smell as possible.
- Memory usage of a data structure operation should be as little as possible.
- This describes that how the data are related to each other.
- Searching: The process to find or search an item in a data structure is called Searching.
- Sorting: The process to sort items in certain order it can be ascending or descending order is called Sorting.
- Insertion: The process to insert an item in a data structure is called Insertion.
- Deletion: The process to delete an existing item from a data structure is called Deletion.
- Traversing: It means to perform any work we have to traverse of all element at least once in data structure.
- Merging: The process to merge of two list of same data types elements in which we get a third list is called Merging.
- Update: To update and existing item in a data structure.