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EE 2204 - Data Structures
and Algorithms
N Radhakrishnan
Assistant Professor
Anna University, Chennai

10 October 2022 Anna University, Chennai - 600 025 2
Topics
 Introduction
 Definitions
 Classification of Data Structures
 Arrays and Linked Lists
 Abstract Data Types [ADT]
• The List ADT
 Array-based Implementation
 Linked List Implementation
 Cursor-based Implementation
 Doubly Linked Lists

Data Structure [Wikipedia]
 Data Structure is a particular way of storing
and organizing data in a computer so that it
can be used efficiently.
 Different kinds of data structures are suited
to different kinds of applications.
 Storing and retrieving can be carried out on
data stored in both main memory and in
secondary memory.

Merriam-Webster's Definition
 Way in which data are stored for efficient
search and retrieval.
 The simplest data structure is the one-
dimensional (linear) array.
 Data items stored non-consecutively in
memory may be linked by pointers.
 Many algorithms have been developed for
storing data efficiently

Algorithms [Wikipedia]
 An algorithm is a step-by-step procedure for
calculations.
 An algorithm is an effective method
expressed as a finite list of well-defined
instructions for calculating a function.
 The transition from one state to the next is
not necessarily deterministic; some
algorithms incorporate random input.

Merriam-Webster's Definition
 Procedure that produces the answer to a
question or the solution to a problem in a
finite number of steps.
 An algorithm that produces a yes or no
answer is called a decision procedure; one
that leads to a solution is a computation
procedure.
 Example: A mathematical formula and the
instructions in a computer program

Data Structure Classification
 Primitive / Non-primitive
• Basic Data Structures available / Derived from
Primitive Data Structures
 Homogeneous / Heterogeneous
• Elements are of the same type / Different types
 Static / Dynamic
• memory is allocated at the time of compilation /
run-time
 Linear / Non-linear
• Maintain a Linear relationship between element

ADT - General Concept
 Problem solving with a computer means
processing data
 To process data, we need to define the data
type and the operation to be performed on
the data
 The definition of the data type and the
definition of the operation to be applied to
the data is part of the idea behind an
Abstract Data Type (ADT)

ADT - General Concept
 The user of an ADT needs only to know that
a set of operations are available for the data
type, but does not need to know how they
are applied
 Several simple ADTs, such as integer, real,
character, pointer and so on, have been
implemented and are available for use in
most languages

Data Types
 A data type is characterized by:
• A set of values
• A data representation, which is common to all
these values, and
• A set of operations, which can be applied
uniformly to all these values

Primitive Data Types
 Languages like ‘C’ provides the following
primitive data types:
• boolean
• char, byte, int
• float, double
 Each primitive type has:
• A set of values
• A data representation
• A set of operations
 These are “set in stone”.

ADT Definition [Wikipedia]
 In computer science, an abstract data type
(ADT) is a mathematical model for a certain
class of data structures that have similar
behavior.
 An abstract data type is defined indirectly,
only by the operations that may be
performed on it and by mathematical
constraints on the effects (and possibly cost)
of those operations.

ADT Definition [Wikipedia]
 An ADT may be implemented by specific data
types or data structures, in many ways and
in many programming languages; or
described in a formal specification language.
 example, an abstract stack could be defined
by three operations:
• push, that inserts some data item onto the
structure,
• pop, that extracts an item from it, and
• peek, that allows data on top of the structure to
be examined without removal.

Definition from techforum4you
 Abstract data types or ADTs are a
mathematical specification of a set of data
and the set of operations that can be
performed on the data.
 They are abstract in the sense that the focus
is on the definitions and the various
operations with their arguments.
 The actual implementation is not defined,
and does not affect the use of the ADT.

ADT in Simple Words
 Definition:
• Is a set of operation
• Mathematical abstraction
• No implementation detail
 Example:
• Lists, sets, graphs, stacks are examples of
ADT along with their operations

Why ADT?
 Modularity
• divide program into small functions
• easy to debug and maintain
• easy to modify
• group work
 Reuse
• do some operations only once
 Easy to change the implementation
• transparent to the program

Implementing an ADT
 To implement an ADT, you need to choose:
• A data representation
 must be able to represent all necessary values of the
ADT
 should be private
• An algorithm for each of the necessary operation:
 must be consistent with the chosen representation
 all auxiliary (helper) operations that are not in the
contract should be private
 Remember: Once other people are using it
• It’s easy to add functionality

The List ADT
 The List is an
• Ordered sequence of data items called
elements
• A1, A2, A3, …,AN is a list of size N
• size of an empty list is 0
• Ai+1 succeeds Ai
• Ai-1 preceeds Ai
• Position of Ai is i
• First element is A1 called “head”
• Last element is AN called “tail”

Operations on Lists
 MakeEmpty
 PrintList
 Find
 FindKth
 Insert
 Delete
 Next
 Previous

List – An Example
 The elements of a list are 34, 12, 52, 16, 12
• Find (52) -> 3
• Insert (20, 4) -> 34, 12, 52, 20, 16, 12
• Delete (52) -> 34, 12, 20, 16, 12
• FindKth (3) -> 20

List - Implementation
 Lists can be implemented using:
• Arrays
• Linked List
• Cursor [Linked List using Arrays]

Arrays
 Array is a static data structure that
represents a collection of fixed number of
homogeneous data items or
 A fixed-size indexed sequence of elements,
all of the same type.
 The individual elements are typically stored
in consecutive memory locations.
 The length of the array is determined when
the array is created, and cannot be changed.

Arrays
 Any component of the array can be
inspected or updated by using its index.
• This is an efficient operation
• O(1) = constant time
 The array indices may be integers (C, Java)
or other discrete data types (Pascal, Ada).
 The lower bound may be zero (C, Java), one
(Fortran), or chosen by the programmer
(Pascal, Ada)

Different Types of Arrays
 One-dimensional array: only one index is
used
 Multi-dimensional array: array involving
more than one index
 Static array: the compiler determines how
memory will be allocated for the array
 Dynamic array: memory allocation takes
place during execution

One Dimensional Static Array
 Syntax:
• ElementType arrayName [CAPACITY];
• ElementType arrayName [CAPACITY] = {
initializer_list };
 Example in C++:
• int b [5];
• int b [5] = {19, 68, 12, 45, 72};

Array Output Function
void display(int array[],int num_values)
{
for (int I = 0; i<num_values; i++)
cout<< array[i] << “ ”;
}

List Implemented Using Array

Operations On Lists
 We’ll consider only few operations
and not all operations on Lists
 Let us consider Insert
 There are two possibilities:
• Ordered List
• Unordered List

Insertion into an Ordered List

Insertion in Detail

Insertion

Deletion

Find / Search
 Searching is the process of looking
for a specific element in an array
 For example, discovering whether a
certain score is included in a list of
scores.
 Searching, like sorting, is a common
task in computer programming.
 There are many algorithms and data
structures devoted to searching.
 The most common one is the linear
search.

Linear Search
 The linear search approach compares
the given value with each element in
the array.
 The method continues to do so until
the given value matches an element in
the list or the list is exhausted
without a match being found.
 If a match is made, the linear search
returns the index of the element in
the array that matches the key.
 If no match is found, the search

Linear Search

Linear Search Function
int LinearSearch (int a[], int n, int key)
{
int i;
for(i=0; i<n; i++)
{
if (a[i] == key)
return i;
}
return -1;
}

Using the Function
 LinearSearch (a,n,item,loc)
 Here "a" is an array of the size n.
 This algorithm finds the location of the
element "item" in the array "a".
 If search item is found, it sets loc to the
index of the element; otherwise, it sets loc
to -1
 index=linearsearch(array, num, key)

PrintList Operation
int myArray [5] = {19,68,12,45,72};
/* To print all the elements of the array
for (int i=0;i<5;i++)
{
printf("%d", myArray[i]);
}

Implementing Deletion

Deletion - Another Method

PrintList O(N)
Find
Insert O(N) (on avarage half
Delete needs to be moved)
FindKth
Next O(1)
Previous
Operations Running Times

Disadvantages of Using Arrays
 Need to define a size for array
• High overestimate (waste of space)
 insertion and deletion is very slow
• need to move elements of the list
 redundant memory space
• it is difficult to estimate the size of array

Linked List
 Series of nodes
• not adjacent in memory
• contain the element and a pointer to a node
containing its succesor
 Avoids the linear cost of insertion and
deletion!

Singly Linked List

Doubly Linked List

Singly Linked List

Singly-linked List - Addition
 Insertion into a singly-linked list has two
special cases.
 It's insertion a new node before the head (to
the very beginning of the list) and after the
tail (to the very end of the list).
 In any other case, new node is inserted in
the middle of the list and so, has a
predecessor and successor in the list.

Empty list case
 When list is empty,
which is indicated by
(head == NULL)
condition, the
insertion is quite
simple.
 Algorithm sets both
head and tail to
point to the new
node.

Add first
 In this case, new node is inserted right
before the current head node.

Add First - Step 1
 It can be done in two steps:
• Update the next link of the new node, to point to
the current head node.

Add First - Step 2
• Update head link to point to the new node.

Add last
 In this case, new node is inserted right after
the current tail node.
• Update the next link of the current tail node, to
point to the new node.
• Update tail link to point to the new node.

Insert - General Case
 In general case, new node is always inserted
between two nodes, which are already in the
list. Head and tail links are not updated in
this case.
 We need to know two nodes "Previous" and
"Next", between which we want to insert the
new node.
 This also can be done in two steps:
• Update link of the "previous" node, to point to the new
node.
• Update link of the new node, to point to the "next" node.

Singly-linked List - Deletion
 There are four cases, which can occur while
removing the node.
 We have the same four situations, but the
order of algorithm actions is opposite.
 Notice, that removal algorithm includes the
disposal of the deleted node - unnecessary in
languages with automatic garbage collection
(Java).

List has only one node
 When list has only
one node, that the
head points to the
same node as the
tail, the removal is
quite simple.
 Algorithm disposes
the node, pointed
by head (or tail)
and sets both head
and tail to NULL.

Remove First
 In this case, first node (current head node)
is removed from the list.
• Update head link to point to the node, next to the
head.
• Dispose removed node.

Remove Last
 In this case, last node (current tail node) is
removed from the list. This operation is a bit
more tricky, than removing the first node,
because algorithm should find a node, which
is previous to the tail first.
 It can be done in three steps:
• Update tail link to point to the node, before the
tail. In order to find it, list should be traversed
first, beginning from the head.
• Set next link of the new tail to NULL.

Remove - General Case
 In general case, node to be removed is
always located between two list nodes. Head
and tail links are not updated in this case.
 We need to know two nodes "Previous" and
"Next", of the node which we want to delete.
 Such a removal can be done in two steps:
• Update next link of the previous node, to point to
the next node, relative to the removed node.

Advantages of Using Linked Lists
 Need to know where the first node is
• the rest of the nodes can be accessed
 No need to move the elements in the list
for insertion and deletion operations
 No memory waste

Cursor Implementation
Problems with linked list implementation:
 Same language do not support pointers!
• Then how can you use linked lists ?
 new and free operations are slow
• Actually not constant time
 SOLUTION: Implement linked list on an array -
called CURSOR

Cursor Implementation - Diagram

Cursor Implementation
If L = 5, then L represents list (A, B, E)
If M = 3, then M represents list (C, D, F)

Arrays - Pros and Cons
 Pros
• Directly supported by C
• Provides random access
 Cons
• Size determined at compile time
• Inserting and deleting elements is
time consuming

Linked Lists - Pros and Cons
 Pros
• Size determined during runtime
• Inserting and deleting elements is
quick
 Cons
• No random access
• User must provide programming
support

Application of Lists
 Lists can be used
 To store the records sequentially
 For creation of stacks and queues
 For polynomial handling
 To maintain the sequence of operations
for do / undo in software
 To keep track of the history of web sites
visited

Why Doubly Linked List ?
 given only the pointer location, we cannot access its
predecessor in the list.
 Another task that is difficult to perform on a linear
linked list is traversing the list in reverse.
 Doubly linked list A linked list in which each node is
linked to both its successor and its predecessor
 In such a case, where we need to access the node
that precedes a given node, a doubly linked list is
useful.

Doubly Linked List
 In a doubly linked list, the nodes are linked
in both directions. Each node of a doubly
linked list contains three parts:
• Info: the data stored in the node
• Next: the pointer to the following node
• Back: the pointer to the preceding node

Operations on Doubly Linked Lists
 The algorithms for the insertion and deletion
operations on a doubly linked list are
somewhat more complicated than the
corresponding operations on a singly linked
list.
 The reason is clear: There are more pointers
to keep track of in a doubly linked list.

Inserting Item
 As an example, consider the Inserting an
item.
 To link the new node, after a given node, in
a singly linked list, we need to change two
pointers:
• newNode->next and
• location->next.
 The same operation on a doubly linked list
requires four pointer changes.

Singly Linked List Insertion

Doubly Linked List Insertion

The Order is Important

Doubly Linked List - Deletion
 One useful feature of a doubly linked list is
its elimination of the need for a pointer to a
node's predecessor to delete the node.
 Through the back member, we can alter the
next member of the preceding node to make
it jump over the unwanted node.
 Then we make the back pointer of the
succeeding node point to the preceding
node.

Doubly Linked List - Deletion

Special Cases of Deletion
 We do, however, have to be careful about
the end cases:
• If location->back is NULL, we are deleting the
first node
• if location->next is NULL, we are deleting the last
node.
• If both location->back and location->next are
NULL, we are deleting the only node.

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