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 ...

I’ve focused on two data structure categories, Java arrays and linked lists, which are the basis of more complex data structures such as stacks, queues, trees, graphs, dictionaries/maps, and sets.

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.

A data structure design, as defined by Idreos and his team in a recent publication, consists of 1) the data organization, 2) an optional index, and 3) the algorithms that support basic operations ...