Data Structures Lecture-1:Introduction

Books
 Data Structures Using C and C++ By Y. Langsam, M. J. Augenstein, A. M. Tenenbaum  Data Structures and Algorithms By A. V. Aho, J. E. Hopcroft, J. D. Ullman  Schaum's Outline Series, Theory and problems of Data Structures By Seymour Lipschutz Some topics will be covered from other books. Material will be provided for these topics.

Course Contents
            Introduction Complexity Analysis Simple Data Types and Abstract Data Types Arrays and Lists Elementary Data Structures Stack and Queues Recursion and Time Complexity of Recursive Algorithms Trees and Graphs Set structure Searching techniques Hashing Sorting techniques

What is a Computer Program?

To exactly know, what is data structure? We must know:
What is a computer program?

Input

Some mysterious processing

Output

Definition
An organization of information, usually in memory, for better algorithm efficiency such as queue, stack, linked list, heap, dictionary, and tree,

3 steps in the study of data structures

Logical or mathematical description of the structure Implementation of the structure on the computer Quantitative analysis of the structure, which includes determining the amount of memory needed to store the structure and the time required to process the structure

Data may be organized in many ways

E.g., arrays, linked lists, trees etc.

The choice of particular data model depends on two consideration:

It must be rich enough in structure to mirror the actual relationships of data in the real world The structure should be simple enough that one can effectively process the data when necessary

Example
 Data structure for storing data of students:Arrays Linked Lists

 Issues
Space needed Operations efficiency (Time required to complete operations)
 Retrieval  Insertion  Deletion

What data structure to use?

Data structures let the input and output be represented in a way that can be handled efficiently and effectively. array Linked list

tree

queue stack