Chapter 13. From Fundamental Data Structures to Collections
Data structures organize data items for easy manipulation. You 've already seen examples of data structures in previous chapters: arrays, strings —and even the Character class. This chapter formalizes the notion of data structure and examines a variety of fundamental data structures. Then it explores wrappers, which make possible the treatment of primitive type values as objects. What 's the difference between an array and a linked list? The section on self-referential classes provides an answer to that question. This chapter concludes by studying the Collections API, a powerful and unified framework for manipulating collections of objects.
Fundamental Data Structures
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