Data structures

Abstract

The study of data structures - that is, methods for organizing data that are suitable for computer processing - is one of the classic topics of computer science. At the hardware level, a computer views storage devices such as internal memory and disk as holders of elementary data units (bytes), each accessible through its address (an integer). When writing programs, instead of manipulating the data at the byte level, it is convenient to organize them into higher-level entities called data structures.