I'm going to explain to you how I mastered data structures and algorithms quickly without hating my life. Now, I say that ...

When a program attempts to search a data structure for a particular item, it uses an algorithm. An algorithm is a process, defined in code, for carrying out a specific task.

All of the data structures we’ll look at in this series are aggregates. Containers. Anything from which data items are stored and retrieved could be considered a data structure.

Learn when and how to use different data structures and their algorithms in your own code. This is harder as a student, as the problem assignments you'll work through just won't impart this knowledge.