Is it necessory to learn algorithm and data structure beside programming?

Question

Hello every body....
i want to know should i start algorithm and data structure with programming?

Answer 1

once you got the basic concepts of programming (control, data types, operators, namespaces, functions, etc.) down...yes you should. Just try this simple problem: You got a set of 12 billion objects of type X, each carrying a value Y. Whats the quickest way of checking, if the set contains an object where Y == n? Whats the quickest way to remove duplicates from the set? How can you represent the objects in order to make them manageable in the first place? That's where the importance of algorithms and data structures comes in.