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Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition
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Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition

by Julie Anderson, Herve J. Franceschi
February 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
1288 pages
39h 39m
English
Jones & Bartlett Learning
Content preview from Java 6 Illuminated: An Active Learning Approach, 2nd Edition
1096 CHAPTER 14 An Introduction to Data Structures
CHAPTER SUMMARY
14.13 Chapter Summary
A data structure is a mechanism for organizing the data a program
stores in memory.
A linked list is a data structure consisting of nodes linked together
like a chain.
Typical instance variables for a node are an object reference to the
data stored at the node, and a node reference, which points to the
next node in the list.
Because each node has a reference to the next node as an instance
variable, a linked list needs only one instance variable, its first node,
which is usually called head. Often, for convenience, we also include
an instance variable representing ...
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ISBN: 9780763749637