Learn Tech Fundamentals: What Are Algorithms and Data Structures?
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If you’re just starting your coding journey or you’ve heard terms like algorithms, data structures, or time complexity thrown around — don’t worry, you’re in the right place.
Let’s take it slow and learn these together, step by step.
Grab your cup of tea ☕ — and let’s dive into the fundamentals of tech!
Before you start out you should know basics of programming like loops ,condition,switch etc
Here we will use C++ because all competative programming and DSA is done in this language and also in my other article we will learn more about DSA also we will do some leetcode in order to understand programming game.
💡 What’s an Algorithm?
An algorithm is just a set of steps to solve a problem.
Think of it like a recipe: when you cook pasta, you follow steps in order — boil water, add salt, drop pasta, wait, drain, and serve 🍝.
In programming, it’s the same idea.
You give your computer a step-by-step plan to solve a task — for example, finding the largest number in a list.
intt numbers[5] = {3,9,2,7,6}; // this is an array!
int largest = 0; // you already know that this is a variable and this will change later
for (int i = 1; i < 5; i++) { // here we are looping
if (numbers[i] > largest) { // if current value is greater than change largest variable to that number
largest = numbers[i];
}
}
cout << "The largest number is:" << largest<<endl;
Pretty simple, right? That’s your first algorithm! 🎉
Ok That’s all for algorithms But then what is Data Structures?
It is a way of structuring data inside RAM. that’s it
Ok Then How do we store data in RAM??
It’s simple through array ,