National 5; Implementation: Data types and structures Data structures. Data is stored differently depending on its type. Numbers are stored as integers or real numbers, text as string or characters.

Data structures offer different ways to store data items, while the algorithms provide techniques for managing this data. Application Data Computing applications use many different types of data.

Implementation (data types and structures) Records. Programmers can identify, store and use different types of data, using 1-D Arrays and records. Part of Computing Science Software design and ...