This tutorial launches a short series introducing data structures and algorithms. In Part 1, you’ll learn what a data structure is and how data structures are classified.

The Java Platform provides the most commonly used data structures in the form of the Collections Framework, and it provides a rich API to operate on them. This article explains the concepts behind ...

It’s a very common programming task to search a singly linked list for specific data items. While the Linear Search algorithm (introduced in Part 2) is most frequently used for this type of task ...

Different programming languages have various ways to delineate the start and end points of a programming structure, such as a loop, method or conditional statement. For example, Java and C++ are often ...