DATA STRUCTURES AND ALGORITHMS – STRUCTURING THE DATA

In computer science, a data structure is a data organization, management, and storage format that enables efficient access and modification.

INTRODUCTION:-

Computer programs can be viewed as functions that are applied to values of certain input

domains to produce results in some other domains. In conventional programming languages, this

function is evaluated through a sequence of steps that produce intermediate data that are stored in

program variables.

Languages do so by providing features to describe data, the flow of computation, and the

overall program organization. This chapter is on mechanisms for structuring and organizing data

values

Programming languages organize data through the concept of type. Types are

used as a way to classify data according to different categories. They are more, however, than

pure sets of data. Data belonging to a type also share certain semantic behaviours.