Data structures knowledge necessary for SCJP 1.6 ?

[Rahul Sudip Bose]

Hi, I am an engineer from non-CS,non-IT background. Do i have to study data structures ?. If so then, just "basics" or "advanced" as well ? Any good books or websites for beginners ?

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

I dont think its required to know about Data Structures.

[Bert Bates]

Hmmm... "Data Structures"

It's a very broadly interpreted phrase. For the exam, you need to understand objects, "pointers", the heap, the stack, arrays, lists, maps, sets, queues, sorting, searching, and hash codes, (did I miss anything?), I'd say you DO have to understand many aspects of data structures.

hth,

Bert

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Collections library, you do need to know what Bert said. The term "Data Structures" took me to the subject in CS. Sorry for providing the wrong information.

[Rahul Sudip Bose]

Bert Bates wrote:Hmmm... "Data Structures"

It's a very broadly interpreted phrase. For the exam, you need to understand objects, "pointers", the heap, the stack, arrays, lists, maps, sets, queues, sorting, searching, and hash codes, (did I miss anything?), I'd say you DO have to understand many aspects of data structures.

hth,

Bert

I am an electronics engineer, and i have never studied data-structures. So, can you suggest some books/websites for beginners, something like a self study guide ?


PS : Thanks to all for writing such a great book.
I have a suggestion - In the future editions of the book, can you include some "toy" projects (on CD) which will make use of most of the concepts learned in each/many chapters. You may show your own implementation of the project as a program.

[Seetharaman Venkatasamy]

If you want to become a developer/programmer, then you *must possess* the data structure concepts.

[Sunny Bhandari]

Seetharaman Venkatasamy wrote:If you want to become a developer/programmer, then you *must possess* the data structure concepts.

I would like to rephrase that line:
If you want to become a good developer/programmer, then you *must possess* the data structure concepts.