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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
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Preface

Creating a linked list


Now that you understand what a linked list is, let's start implementing our data structure. This is the skeleton of our LinkedList class:

function LinkedList() { 
 
  let Node = function(element){ // {1} 
    this.element = element; 
    this.next = null; 
  }; 
 
  let length = 0; // {2} 
  let head = null; // {3} 
 
  this.append = function(element){}; 
  this.insert = function(position, element){}; 
  this.removeAt = function(position){}; 
  this.remove = function(element){}; 
  this.indexOf = function(element){}; 
  this.isEmpty = function() {}; 
  this.size = function() {}; 
  this.toString = function(){}; 
  this.print = function(){}; 
} 

For the LinkedList data structure, we need a helper class called Node (line {1}). The Node class represents the item that we want to add to the list. It contains an element attribute, which is the value that we want to add to the...