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If you've used lower-level languages such as C or C++, you know that much of your work centers on implementing objects—also known as data structures—to represent the components in your applica...
Choose the data type according to the characteristics of the
information to be stored and how you need to use it. Consider
questions such as these:Are the strings binary or nonbinary...