Introduction to Custom Data Structures
Explore custom data structures and how modifying or combining basic data structures like stacks and queues can solve specific problems efficiently. Understand their role in tasks such as web crawling, game state management, and search engine optimization. Learn to implement these structures using classes to improve performance and code reuse in coding interviews.
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About the pattern
Although many coding problems can be solved using existing data structures like arrays, linked lists, stacks, queues, trees, and hash tables, sometimes these structures may not perfectly fit the requirements of a given problem or may not provide the desired efficiency. This is where we need custom data structures. These structures can be implemented using basic data structures as building blocks and incorporate unique features or behaviors specific to the problem domain. In easier words, a custom data structure is the modified version of an existing data structure.
For example, we have to build a web crawler. It starts with a set of seed URLs, visits each page, finds ...