Licensing and attribution - Data Structures and Algorithms

Benny Chin is the author of DSA Concepts, developed from CS2040HS teaching materials at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore. The author credit, institutional affiliation and copyright notice serve different purposes; the copyright holder identified for this project is Benny Chin.

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