1 Introducing data structures: Why you should learn about data structures

In this chapter

  • welcome to this book
  • what are data structures
  • why you need data structures
  • examples of data structures making a difference
  • step-by-step guidelines to apply data structures in a project

Data structures make the world go round: information is the gold of the Internet Age, and data structures are necessary for handling and making sense of information. Data structures allow us to shape data in meaningful ways and query it to find what is relevant to us.

Welcome to Grokking Data Structures

Welcome to Grokking Data Structures! I’m super excited to accompany you on this journey through data structures.

In this book, I want to dispel some misconceptions about ...

Get Grokking Data Structures now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.