We solved the previous example by taking a few steps, such as asking all students to stand in a queue and, once a student got candy, we moved them to a separate group. We could have also done the same task without asking them to maintain a queue or separating them into a separate group once they got the candy. But we did that to make the task go smoother. Of course, we could have done the task without these two sub-tasks, but that would have created a lot of confusion and made it tedious to finish the task on time.
If we consider that example, we can treat candies and students as data. And to solve the problem given by the teacher, we first structured the data and solved it with ease. This is what we call data structures in computer science.
In this book, we'll cover the most commonly used data structures such as an array, string, list, linked...
