8 Common Data Structures every Programmer must know

A quick introduction to 8 commonly used data structures

Vijini Mallawaarachchi
Towards Data Science
11 min readFeb 28, 2020

--

Data Structures are a specialized means of organizing and storing data in computers in such a way that we can perform operations on the stored data more efficiently. Data structures have a wide and diverse scope of usage across the fields of Computer Science and Software Engineering.

Image by author

--

--

Bioinformatician | Computational Genomics 🧬 | Data Science 👩🏻‍💻 | Music 🎵 | Astronomy 🔭 | Travel 🎒 | vijinimallawaarachchi.com