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What's a Linked List, Anyway? [Part 1]

Vaidehi Joshi on February 10, 2017

Information is all around us. In the world of software, the ways that we choose to organize our information is half the battle. Here's the thing t...
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Looking good.

A small note about " When we organize our data into hashes (sometimes called dictionaries)" This is technically incorret. The logical data structure is the "Dictionary", or "Map", and a hash map is one way to implement it. Dictionaries are also frequently implemented with a binary tree, and perhaps a radix trie for optimized stores.

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Saputro Andi P

I just can say WOW ! thanks it's very easy to understand.

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BourneKing

It's a very good article.

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Shilllo

this article is so highly understandable! thanks a lot!

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ABHISHEK PRASAD BAHELIYA

Nice explanation. you are awesome!

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{tony} Charles Omondi

Great article.
Best teacher.

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forquato

wow, very nice article.

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Pcoch

great article! thank you.

Small note, but the profile avatar moving while reading is super distracting (for me) 😅

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Abraão Duarte

Congrats, this article is really good.

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Jean Bernard

Excellent explanation! Very easy to understand. Thank you!

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Tyler Hudson

I appreciate your drawings, they really help with grasping what is going on under the hood when these data structures are implemented. Great read!

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Chiara DeLucia

In the middle of prepping for technical interviews. Thank you so much!!

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Md Mosabbir Khan • Edited

The diagrams look cool.
Here from The Odin Project!