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Go Systems Programming

You're reading from   Go Systems Programming Master Linux and Unix system level programming with Go

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125643
Length 466 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Mihalis Tsoukalos Mihalis Tsoukalos
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Preface 1. Getting Started with Go and Unix Systems Programming FREE CHAPTER 2. Writing Programs in Go 3. Advanced Go Features 4. Go Packages, Algorithms, and Data Structures 5. Files and Directories 6. File Input and Output 7. Working with System Files 8. Processes and Signals 9. Goroutines - Basic Features 10. Goroutines - Advanced Features 11. Writing Web Applications in Go 12. Network Programming

Linked lists in Go

A linked list is a structure with a finite set of elements where each element uses at least two memory locations: one for storing the data and the other for a pointer that links the current element to the next one in the sequence of elements that make the linked list. The biggest advantages of linked lists are that they are easy to understand and implement, and generic enough to be used in many different situations and model many different kinds of data.

The first element of a linked list is called the head, whereas the last element of a list is often called the tail. The first thing you should do when defining a linked list is to keep the head of the list in a separate variable because the head is the only thing that you need to access the entire linked list.

Note that if you lose the pointer to the first node of a single linked list, there is no possible way...
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