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Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms - Second Edition

By : Loiane Groner
Book Image

Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms - Second Edition

By: Loiane Groner

Overview of this book

This book begins by covering basics of the JavaScript language and introducing ECMAScript 7, before gradually moving on to the current implementations of ECMAScript 6. You will gain an in-depth knowledge of how hash tables and set data structure functions, as well as how trees and hash maps can be used to search files in a HD or represent a database. This book is an accessible route deeper into JavaScript. Graphs being one of the most complex data structures you’ll encounter, we’ll also give you a better understanding of why and how graphs are largely used in GPS navigation systems in social networks. Toward the end of the book, you’ll discover how all the theories presented by this book can be applied in real-world solutions while working on your own computer networks and Facebook searches.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Summary


In this chapter, you learned about dictionaries and how to add, remove, and get elements among other methods. You also learned the difference between a dictionary and a set.

We covered hashing, how to create a hash table (or hash map) data structure, how to add, remove, and get elements, and also how to create hash functions. You learned how to handle collision in a hash table using two different techniques.

We also covered how to use the ES6 Map class and also the WeakMap and WeakSet classes.

In the next chapter, you will learn a new data structure called tree.