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C++ Data Structures and Algorithms

By : Wisnu Anggoro
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Book Image

C++ Data Structures and Algorithms

5 (1)
By: Wisnu Anggoro

Overview of this book

C++ is a general-purpose programming language which has evolved over the years and is used to develop software for many different sectors. This book will be your companion as it takes you through implementing classic data structures and algorithms to help you get up and running as a confident C++ programmer. We begin with an introduction to C++ data structures and algorithms while also covering essential language constructs. Next, we will see how to store data using linked lists, arrays, stacks, and queues. Then, we will learn how to implement different sorting algorithms, such as quick sort and heap sort. Along with these, we will dive into searching algorithms such as linear search, binary search and more. Our next mission will be to attain high performance by implementing algorithms to string datatypes and implementing hash structures in algorithm design. We'll also analyze Brute Force algorithms, Greedy algorithms, and more. By the end of the book, you'll know how to build components that are easy to understand, debug, and use in different applications.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
Index

Building a Singly Linked List ADT


The Singly Linked List (also known as the linked list) is a sequence of items linked with each other. It's actually a chaining of nodes, where each node contains the item's value and the next pointer. In other words, each item in the linked list has a link to its next item in the sequence. The thing that differs between the linked list and the node chain is that the linked list has a Head and a Tail pointer. The Head informs the first item and the Tail informs the last item in the linked list. Similar to the List ADT, we discussed earlier, the linked list has Get(), Insert(), Search(), and Remove() operations, where all of the operations have the same functionality compared to List. However, since we now have Head and Tail pointers, we will also create others operations, and these are InsertHead(), InsertTail(), RemoveHead(), and RemoveTail(). The declaration of the LinkedList class should be as follows:

template <typename T>
class LinkedList
{
private...