This tutorial launches a short series introducing data structures and algorithms. In Part 1, you’ll learn what a data structure is and how data structures are classified.

Like arrays, which were introduced in Part 3 of this tutorial series, linked lists are a fundamental data structure category upon which more complex data structures can be based.

Java records tackle these problems by providing a simple programming construct that lets developers declare immutable data structures. The performance of these components is then highly optimized by ...