Java’s Data Structure Illustrated One way to get exposure to a specific data structure is to simply read the documentation. But it won’t sink in thoroughly until you create your own example. In this article, we’ll look at the LinkedList class. The phone directory seems to be the example of choice by most college professors to introduce this data structure. Within our phone directory program, we’ll want to be able to: add a new record, delete the current record, change the first name of the current record, change the last name of the current record, change the phone number of the current record,