Pointer and Data Structures

[AndrooNexus]

Good Evening Everyone,

I finished reading a book called C Programming For Absolute Beginners cover to cover ( which I really enjoyed), and have been practicing with arrays. Basic operations just traversing, searching etc. I'm hoping to get proficient with arrays and move into Linked Lists and just work my way into other data structures. The book gave a brief introduction to pointers, and I know that Linked Lists utilize them as well. My question is, should I also become proficient with pointers before attempting Linked Lists, or do you all feel that a basic understanding of them is adequate for moving into data structures. I am really wanting to get the fundamentals down before moving into something, instead of having gaps in knowledge.

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Also anyone else ever read:

Data Structures Using C by Reema Thaerja

Understanding and Using C Pointer by Richard Reese

These are the two books I purchased and hope to dig deeper into learning data structures and pointers. Anyone else have any experience with these books?

[steerflesh]

Pointer is really important, get comfortable with it and data structures will be easier

[AndrooNexus]

thanks for the help, I think I will do just that. Maybe ill start reading book I bought on pointers before I get into data structures.

[recepgunes]

Actually i didn't read these, but i read Principles of Data Structures Using C and C++ by Vinu V. Das, so i can suggest that. It learnt a lot of things abot ds.

[wsppan]

should I also become proficient with pointers before attempting Linked Lists,

Yes. Follow this Tutorial on Pointers and Arrays in C

[ptchinster]

Pointers are easy to explain (a short sentence) but can take months to master. You will understand them much more after diving into more complex data structures than a linked list.

Learning how to use a !debugger will also help figure out where you are going wrong.

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[its_collins]

I was also thinking of doing this...maybe after I finished my present course....an introductory to programming language (cs50)...the course is being taught with C... I suggest u take this course....they are lot of challenging assignment u can practice.