Programming is all about taking data and manipulating it in all sorts of interesting ways. Now, depending on what we are doing, our data needs to be represented in a form that makes it easy for us to actually use. This form is better known as a data structure. As we will see shortly, data structures give the data we are dealing with a heavy dose of organization and scaffolding. This makes manipulating our data easier and (often) more efficient. In the following sections, we find out how that is possible!
Onward!
Right Tool for the Right Job
To better understand the importance of data structures, let’s look at an example. Here is the setup. We have a bunch of tools and related gadgets (Figure 1-1).
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