Saturday, 13 September 2014

OVERVIEW OF DATA STRUCTURES-RELATION BETWEEN DATA AND INFORMATION

OVERVIEW OF DATA STRUCTURES

The study of computer science deals with storage, retrieval, handling and organization of information
Information is derived from data.
 


Data structure is a particular way of organizing data in a computer so that it can be used efficiently.
Data structures are a method of representing of logical relationships between individual data elements related to the solution of a given problem.
It is a structured set of variables associated with one another in different ways, cooperatively defining components in the system and capable of being operated upon in the program
 
In data structures, we also have to decide on the storage, retrieval and operation that should be carried out between logically related items.
For example, the data must be stored in memory in computer-understandable format, i.e. 0 and 1 and the data stored must be retrieved in human-understandable format, i.e. ASCII. In order to transform data various operations have to be performed

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