DATA STRUCTURE

"DATA STRUCTURE"

Data may be organized in many different ways: the logical or mathematical model of a particular organization of data is called data structure.


A data structure is a specialized format for organizing and storing data.

Classification of data structure

Data structure are normally divided into two broad categories:

1. Primitive data structure

2.Non-primitive data structure

Primitive data structure

A primitive data structure is generally a basic structure that is usually built into the language, such as an integer, an array or a linked-list.

These are basic structures and are directly operated upon by the machine instructions. In general, they have different representations on different computers. integers, character constants, string constants, pointers, etc.

Non- primitive data structure

A NON-PRIMITIVE DATA STRUCTURE is built out of primitive data structures linked together in meaningful ways, such as a binary search tree, AVL Tree ,HASHTABLE, ETC.

These are more sophisticated  data structure. These are derived from the primitive data structure.

Non-primitive data structure are divided into two categories:

1. linear data structure--( linear  data structure is one in which its elements from a sequence.)

    

2 non-linear data structure ( A non-linear data structure is one in which its elements are not from a sequence)

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