CIS3355: Business Data Structures
Fall, 2008
 

Numeric Arrays
(Chapter 4 in the text).

Numeric Arrays are the first Abstract Data Type (by definition) which we introduce. Numeric arrays are the simplest of the abstract data types we will examine. Another consideration for introducing them first was structure usefulness. Arrays are, arguably, the most frequently employed data structure in use, perhaps because of the first factor we considered (simplicity), and because they tend to execute very quickly. Finally, another concern was introducing data structures which would serve as later building blocks for later data structures. Arrays can be incorporated into a number of additional data structures, most notably, as strings.

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