计算机专业英语1DataStructure.pptVIP

Computer English ;Key points:  useful terms and definitions of data structureDifficult points:  Stack, queue, tree;Requirements:;New Words Expressions: harsh table 杂凑(哈希)表 priority queues 优先队列 reusability n.复用性 binary tree 二叉树 traversing 遍历，走过 context-free 与上下文无关;Data comes in all shapes and sizes, but often it can be organized in the same way. For example, consider a list of things to do, a list of ingredients in a recipe, or a reading list for a class. Although each contains a different type of data, they all contain data organized in a similar way: a list. A list is one simple example of a data structure. Of course, there are many other common ways to organize data as well. In computing, some of the most common organizations are linked lists, stacks, queues, sets, hash tables, trees, heaps, priority queues, and graphs. Three reasons for using data structures are efficiency, abstraction, and reusability.;Efficiency Data structures organize data in ways that make algorithms more efficient. For example, consider some of the ways we can organize data for searching it. One simplistic approach is to place the data in an array and search the data by traversing element by element until the desired element is found. However, this method is inefficient because in many cases we end up traversing every element. By using another type of data structure, such as a hash table or a binary tree we can search the data considerably faster.;Abstraction Data structures provide a more understandable way to look at data; thus, they offer a level of abstraction in solving problems. For example, by storing data in a stack, we can focus on things that we do with stacks, such as pushing and popping elements, rather than the details of how to implement each operation. In other words, data structures let us talk about programs in a less programmatic way.;Reusability Data structures are reusable because they tend to be modular and context-free. They are modular because e