what is data structure in C?

Its related to stacks and other thing in data structure in C

good topic :)

good topic :)

i don't know anything abt it.

In computer science, a data structure is a way of storing data in a computer so that it can be used efficiently. A well-designed data structure allows a variety of critical operations to be performed on using as little resources, both execution time and memory space, as possible. If u want more details visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_structure

As Dholey and others suggest, Data structure is a way of organizing data and efficiently retreiving it. As a C programmer your basic steps towards learing and implementing them require a thorough understanding of Arrays, Structures and pointers. These form the basic blocks of any data structure implementation in C/C++. However, this only enhannces your knowledge and programmming ability. If you want to see them in real action with a minimal amount of coding, JAVA is the best place. The SDK has all the inbuilt capabilites to organise data into different data structures. You can go through 'Data structure through C/C++' by Yeshavanth Kanethkar for easy and quick understanding....later you can proceed with other publishers to master them.

a structure declaration which has a pointer to itself in its declaration is the basics of data structure like struct test { int val; struct test *next; } ; now using instances of this declaration you can manage data in efficient mannaer , you can make que, stack, trees, graphs of your data , i.e data is then represented in specific manner , it can be used of indexing data with different keys , you can have search methods for different key ... its a vast topic ... it is very helpful for handling big data in proper manner , it increases the performance of your program ... get few good books like schaums outline of data structure, data structure by kanitkar, data structure by c. date ...

basic data types are : int,char,float,double more complicated data types are : tree,graph,queue,stack now its not possible to teach u how to use them in programming u can learn tht online... online tutorials are available 4 tht