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So do I really need to learn about them ? Isn’t there an interesting way to learn about stacks, linked lists, heaps, etc ? I found it a boring subject.
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okay..I get it
So what is THE best way to learn them ? What book do I refer ? What website ?
It’s compulsory to learn about data structures if you want to be a programmer. Data structures are your bread-and-butter – if you don’t understand things like the behavior, uses, and run-time complexity (‘big-O’) of at least the basic structures (arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees (binary / n-ary, self-balancing varietes), hash-tables, heaps, graphs) and the algorithms that run on them (insert / locate / delete), you won’t know which is appropriate to use under what circumstances.
Every trade has its tools; these are ours. Data structures are the most basic underpinnings of almost any algorithm that you’re going to learn. Unless you want to be a cargo cult programmer, you need to understand how they work.
Whether or not there are interesting ways to learn about them is a separate question entirely… 🙂