How Data Is Organized

What would we do without organization? ThinkingOutLoud.DonaldNoyes.20111121

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Computer programs, particularly those which manipulate data, are built using structures and manipulations to organize data with one of its the goals being to present to a final user data in an organized and comprehensible form. Programmers use a host of DataStructures and Methods to accomplish this.

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How Programmers organize data

• A List of structures
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_data_structures
• Container
  • Bag
  • Box
• Collection
  • Array
  • Hash
  • List
  • Database
    • Relational
• A List of Methods
  • Models
    • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_model
  • Order
    • Sort
    • Group
    • Pile | Stack
    • Insert
    • Extract
  • Acquisition and Disposition
    • User Input
    • Gathering | Mining
  • Display | Dump | Present
    • Screen
    • Printer
    • Network
    • ...

What, no relational? Phoooey! ( added )

Thanks! What about hierarchical file systems, and hierarchy-oriented databases such as IBM's IMS? Database-ness and tree-ness are mostly orthogonal issues such that grouping by tree-ness in the list above de-groups by database-ness.

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