A practical guide to learning data structures simply and easilyAbout This BookThis book is a very practical, friendly, and useful guide that will help you analyze problems and choose the right data structures for your solution Learn to recognize data patterns for determining which structures apply to a given problem Explore the unique rules or "gotchas" that will help you become an excellent programmerWho This Book Is ForIf you're self-taught programmers in any language who wants to gain a solid understanding of data structures and how to use them to solve real-world problems in your day-to-day development work, then this book is for you.What You Will LearnA rapid overview of data types, applications for each type, best practices and high-level variations between platforms Review the most common data structures and build working examples in the languages used for mobile platform software development Understand advanced data structure concepts such as generic collections, searching and sorting algorithms, and recursion Learn to use Stacks (LIFO) and queues (FIFO) in your daily application Add/remove objects and nest arrays and dictionaries within another dictionary and understand why such architecture is often preferred or necessary Get acquainted with the tree structures such as heap, binary, and graphs, apply them to work Unleash the power of different sorting techniques such as bubble sort, quick sort, merge sort, insertion sort, and radix sort Perform searching operations on arrays, heaps, graphs, and binary trees in different languages