10 Key Data Structures We Use Every Day

Here are 10 key data structures we use every day:

• • List: Keep your Twitter feeds

• • Stack: Support undo/redo of the word editor

• • Queue: Keep printer jobs, or send user actions in-game

• • Hash Table: Caching systems

• • Array: Math operations

• • Heap: Task scheduling

• • Tree: Keep the HTML document, or for AI decision

• • Suffix Tree: For searching string in a document

• • Graph: For tracking friendship, or path finding

• • R-Tree: For finding the nearest neighbor

• • Vertex Buffer: For sending data to GPU for rendering