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C# Data Structures and Algorithms

You're reading from   C# Data Structures and Algorithms Harness the power of C# to build a diverse range of efficient applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248271
Length 372 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Marcin Jamro Marcin Jamro
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Data Types 2. Chapter 2: Introduction to Algorithms FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Arrays and Sorting 4. Chapter 4: Variants of Lists 5. Chapter 5: Stacks and Queues 6. Chapter 6: Dictionaries and Sets 7. Chapter 7: Variants of Trees 8. Chapter 8: Exploring Graphs 9. Chapter 9: See in Action 10. Chapter 10: Conclusion 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Linked lists

While using the List generic class, you can easily get access to particular elements of the collection using indices. However, when you get a single element, how can you move to the next element of the collection? Is it possible? To do so, you may consider the IndexOf method to get an index of the element. Unfortunately, it returns an index of the first occurrence of a given value in the collection, so it will not always work as expected in this scenario. Fortunately, linked lists exist and can help you with this problem! In this section, you will learn about a few variants.

Singly linked lists

A singly linked list is a data structure in which each list element contains a pointer to the next element. Thus, you can easily move from any element to the next one, but you cannot go back. Of course, the last element in the list has an empty pointer to the next element because there is nothing more located in the list.

Imagine a singly linked list

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