Data Structures

Reading Material
Data Structures and algorithm analysis in C++
Summary

• Introduction to Data Structures
• Selecting a Data Structure
• Data Structure Philosophy
• Goals of this Course
• Array
• List data structure

Welcome to the course of data structure. This is very important subject as the topics covered in it will be encountered by you again and again in the future courses. Due to its great applicability, this is usually called as the foundation course. You have already studied Introduction to programming using C and C++ and used some data structures. The focus of that course was on how to carry out programming with the use of C and C++ languages besides the resolution of different problems. In this course, we will continue problem solving and see that the organization of data in some cases is of immense importance. Therefore, the data will be stored in a special way so that the required result should be calculated as fast as possible.

Following are the goals of this course:

• Prepare the students for (and is a pre-requisite for) the more advanced material students will encounter in later courses.

• Cover well-known data structures such as dynamic arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees and graphs.

• Implement data structures in C++

You have already studied the dynamic arrays in the previous course. We will now discuss linked lists, stacks, queues, trees and graphs and try to resolve the problems with the help of these data structures. These structures will be implemented in C++ language. We will also do programming assignments to see the usage and importance of these structures.