A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript, Volume 1

Exercises

The following exercises provide you with the opportunity to practice with optimizing your code. The solutions to these exercises are found in the section ​Chapter 20​.

1. You’re working on software that analyzes sports players. Following are two arrays of players of different sports:

   const basketballPlayers = [
     { firstName: 'Jill', lastName: 'Huang', team: 'Gators' },
     { firstName: 'Janko', lastName: 'Barton', team: 'Sharks' },
     { firstName: 'Wanda', lastName: 'Vakulskas', team: 'Sharks' },
     { firstName: 'Jill', lastName: 'Moloney', team: 'Gators' },
     { firstName: 'Luuk', lastName: 'Watkins', team: 'Gators' },
   ];
   
   const footballPlayers = [
     { firstName: 'Hanzla', lastName: 'Radosti', team: '32ers' },
    { firstName: 'Tina', ...