In the late 1960s, Donald Knuth, winner of the 1974 Turing Award, published his landmark book The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental Algorithms. This book brought together a body of knowledge that defined the data structures area. The term data structure, itself, was defined in this book to be A table of data including structural relationships. Niklaus Wirth, the inventor of the Pascal language and winner of the 1984 Turing award, stated that “Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs.” The importance of algorithms and data structures has been recognized by the community and consequently, every undergraduate Computer Science curriculum has classes on data structures and algorithms. Both of these related areas ...
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