Archived I've just finished a Data Structures class. What can I use it for? (learnprogramming)
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Archived I've just finished a Data Structures class. What can I use it for? (learnprogramming)
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[–] king_of_voat 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
While it's true that you probably won't ever have to implement fundamental datastructures yourself knowledge of them is really important. Algorithms as a topic are by far not the only thing you should focus on studying.
If you know your datastructures, deciding how you want to write something performantly will become a lot easier, just consider e.g. that tree maps can be useful in cases where you need to be able to lookup all values with a key greater than x. You could work around with using some sort of hash map / list combination but knowing this stuff will make your life way easier.