Introduction to Data

Structures

Manish B. Gudadhe ,St. Vincent Pallotti College of Engineering & Technology, Nagpur
Contents
▸ Need of data structures

▸ What is Data Structures

▸ Examples of Data Structures

▸ Types of Data Structures

▸ Applications of Data Structures

Why we need Data structures?

▸ Organizing the data in a particular way.

▸ To access and use the data efficiently. 

▸ To reduce the space and time complexities of different tasks.

What is Data structures?

▸ Data structure is a way of organizing the data items.

▸ It represents the logical relationships between existing individual elements

of data

▸ It mainly specifies four things

▹ Organization of Data
▹ Access methods
▹ Degree of associativity
▹ Processing alternatives for information 
What is Data structures?

▸ Data structure gives information about :

▹ Amount of memory required
▹ Amount of time required to access
▹ Representation of data in memory
▹ Operations to be performed on data
Examples of commonly used Data Structures are:

▸ Array and Dynamic Array

▸ Stack and Queue

▸ Linked List: Singly linked list, Doubly linked lists, Circular list

▸ Tree: Binary tree, Binary Search Tree, Heap tree etc.

▸ Priority Queue

▸ Hash Table

▸ Graph
Types of Data structures?
Arrays

An array is a collection of items stored at contiguous memory locations.

The idea is to store multiple items of the same type together.

 Stack

The stack is a data structure following the LIFO(Last In, First Out) principle.
 Queues

The queue is a data structure following the FIFO(First In, First Out) principle.
 Linked List

• A linked list is a dynamic data structure.

• The number of nodes in a list is not fixed and can grow and shrink on demand.
 Trees

A tree is a hierarchical data structure that stores the information naturally in a

hierarchical style.
 Trees

• A graph is a set of objects where some pairs of objects are connected by links.
• The interconnected objects are represented by points termed as vertices, and
the links that connect the vertices are called edges.
 Application of data structures

• Stacks are used in “call stack” which is used when functions are called.

• Queues are used for interprocess communications.

• Heaps are used to implementing priority queues which are used for scheduler during

scheduling of the process in an operating system.

• Binary Search Trees are used for implementing maps and sets.

• B-Trees are used in Database designs

• Trees are used in File-System.

• Circular Doubly linked lists are used by the kernel to store lists of processes.
Searching & Sorting
Searching Algorithms

To search an element in a given array, there are two popular algorithms available:

• Linear Search

• Binary Search

• Exponential Search

• Interpolation Search

• Jump Search

• Linear Search

• Ternary Search
Linear Search

• Linear search is a very basic and simple search algorithm.

• In Linear search, we search an element or value in a given array by traversing
the array from the starting, till the desired element or value is found.
• It compares the element to be searched with all the elements present in the
array and when the element is matched successfully, it returns the index of the
element in the array, else it return -1.
• Linear Search is applied on unsorted or unordered lists, when there are fewer
elements in a list.
Linear Search

Following are the steps of implementation that we will be following:

• Traverse the array using a for loop.
• In every iteration, compare the target value with the current value of the array.
• If the values match, return the current index of the array.
• If the values do not match, move on to the next array element.
• If no match is found, return -1.
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int linearSearch(int values[], int target, int n)

{
for(int i = 0; i < n; i++)
{
if (values[i] == target)
{
printf(“Element found at %d”,i+1);
return i;
}
}
return -1;
}
 Binary Search

Following are the steps of implementation that we will be following:

1. Start with the middle element:
If the target value is equal to the middle element of the array, then return the index of the middle
element.
If not, then compare the middle element with the target value,
If the target value is greater than the number in the middle index, then pick the
elements to the right of the middle index, and start with Step 1.
If the target value is less than the number in the middle index, then pick the
elements to the left of the middle index, and start with Step 1.
2. When a match is found, return the index of the element matched.
3. If no match is found, then return -1
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do until the pointers low and high meet each other.

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mid = (low + high)/2

if (x == arr[mid]) 48
return mid
else 62
if (x > A[mid]) // x is on the right side
low = mid + 1 75
else // x is on the left side
high = mid - 1 89

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binarySearch(arr, x, low, high) 25

if low > high
return False 31
else
mid = (low + high) / 2 48
if x == arr[mid]
return mid 62
else
if x < data[mid] // x is on the right side 75
return binarySearch(arr, x, mid + 1, high)
else // x is on the right side 89
return binarySearch(arr, x, low, mid - 1)

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