DS&A

The ‘Array-List’ Data Structure

Feb 192018

In earlier posts we described lists and arrays. We described lists as an abstract data type, meaning we said what a list is and what we should be able to do with one. However, we didn’t say how a list is implemented — we didn’t describe a data structure for a list — so we don’t yet have a scheme for representing lists in memory.(1) On the other hand, when we described arrays, we did also describe how to represent them in memory.

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Arrays

Feb 122018

We have the idea of an abstract data type (ADT) — a data type which is defined by its set of possible values and set of supported operations, but which does not specify how those values should be represented in memory, nor how the operations should be implemented. We also have a memory model for thinking about data structures, which fill in these details.(1)

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• arrays, collections, memory

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