Problem
Since data structures are used to store data in an organized form, and data is the most crucial entity in computer science, the true worth of data structures is clear. In your responses to your peers' posts, consider the following:
1) How would choosing a different data structure for the specified data affect the performance of an algorithm?
2) Why is choosing a data structure important?
Samantha Douglas posted Mar 9, 2023 10:56 PMSubscribe
The day-to-day scenario I chose was creating a grocery list. To store the grocery items I would use a vector because compared to other data structures it is safer to use. During runtime you can check that an index is within the vector's range (via .at()), which can prevent program errors/crashing. Since vectors are dynamically allocated, it also easier to resize them and add/remove items. This would be helpful when creating a grocery list because I would add/remove items frequently. Other data structures (i.e., arrays) do not allow you to change the size of the list, so a vector would be better to use. It does take longer to access vector elements but since they are generally more flexible and safer to use, I would choose them to store the grocery item list data.