Types of data structure

 

As you go through different books There are different point of view is  choosed for categorising data  structure …..

           

Data structures are broadly divided into two :

1.      Primitive data structures : These are the basic data structures and are directly operated upon by the machine instructions, which is in a primitive level.

      They are integers, floating point numbers, characters, string constants, pointers etc.

 

2.      Non-primitive data structures : It is a more sophisticated data structure emphasizing on structuring of a group of homogeneous (same type) or heterogeneous (different type) data items. Array, list, files, linked list, trees and graphs fall in this category.