Starting Out with C++ from Control Structures to Objects (9th Edition)
Starting Out with C++ from Control Structures to Objects (9th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134498379
Author: Tony Gaddis
Publisher: PEARSON
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Self-referential data structure:

It is a data structure, contains sequence of elements which includes at least one pointer variable in type of its own kind.

The purpose of the self-referential data structure is that each variable maintains a link to another variable of the same type to forming a non-contiguous data structure. It is otherwise called as linked list.

It can be implemented to form other data structures such as list, stacks, queues and trees...

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