This tutorial launches a short series introducing data structures and algorithms. In Part 1, you’ll learn what a data structure is and how data structures are classified.

An array can store a series of data values in a linear structure, with each element accessed using its index position within the data. Some data structures prevent programs from storing duplicate ...

Binary search is an exceptionally efficient algorithm designed to locate an element within a sorted list or array. In contrast to linear search, which examines each element sequentially, a binary ...

This is followed by algorithms for insertion, deletion and finding the minimum element of a heap along with their time complexities. Finally, we will study the priority queue data structure and ...

Like arrays, which were introduced in Part 3 of this tutorial series, linked lists are a fundamental data structure category upon which more complex data structures can be based.

algorithms Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than ...