Lara Schenck

Lover of programming, maker of monsters

Tag: data structures

  • Day 3: Data Structures – Stacks & Queues

    Stacks and queues are quite similar in that they are both linear and abstract data structures (meaning they describe the behavior of a different data structure, like a linked list or array). All the action in terms of adding and removing items happens at their ends, and their main difference is in which end that…

  • Illustration of a linked list

    Day 1: Data Structures – Linked Lists

    Linked lists are very similar to arrays in that they are a one-dimensional list of elements. Unlike arrays, however, in a linked list, you cannot just jump to index 4, you have to walk through the list, starting with the “head”, or the first element in the list, and work your way through to the…

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