UMBC CS 201, Spring 02
On Data Structures
So far, we have learned about the basic data types
of C, integers, floating-points and characters and used some of the
specific data types of each kind, such as int, float, double, and char.
Now we will add a complex data type whose elements can be defined to be
of an arbitrary type.
This is our first real example of what is generally called a data structure .
Niklaus Wirth, a famous Computer Scientist who invented the Pascal
programming language, coined the slogan:
Algorithms + Data structures = Programs
To reflect the fact that the two most important aspects of programming
are designing algorithms and selecting and/or designing the data
structures on which they operate.
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Thursday, 17-Jan-2002 13:52:08 EST