Help a college student

/prog/ I don't understand data structures very well and I have a test next week that will either make me or break me. I am usually a star student but something about me/data structures/teacher isn't right. I pay attention in class and take pages and pages of notes and every night I read the related material for at least 1-2.5 hours each and every night although I still find myself lost. Please give me advice on how I can better understand this subject.

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I must take issue with your post too.

You are correct in that learning to solve problems is a large part of computer science, but it is intimately tied into knowledge of the subject - and by that I mean the theoretical groundwork of computer science.

I taught myself a fair bit of practical knowledge before attending university, but it was learned in ignorance of the theory that pins it up. For me at least, my computer science course was far from pointless. It brought me closer to Satori than any D-I-Y Java book could ever do.