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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
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Preface

Chapter 5. Linked Lists

In Chapter 2 , Arrays, we learned about the data structure, array. An array (we can also call it a list) is a very simple data structure that stores a sequence of data. In this chapter, you will learn how to implement and use a linked list, which is a dynamic data structure, meaning that we can add or remove items from it at will and it will grow as needed.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • The linked list data structure

  • Adding elements to a linked list

  • Removing elements from a linked list

  • How to use the LinkedList class

  • Doubly linked lists

  • Circular linked lists