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No matter whether you are developing a simple application
helping your grandmother quickly text her daughter, or a
complex enterprise application, it is highly likely that you
will use some sort of data structure. Data structure are not
only a very good way of storing and organizing data, but they
are also a standardized way of managing data properly. It is
crucial for a software developer to know data structure, and
also when to use a particular type of them when trying to
solve a problem. With the correct data structure, the
developer should not only have the means to solve the problem
effectively, but also efficiently. In this article, you can
see a data structure usage compass, intended more for Java
Developers.
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