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Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours, fifth edition
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Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours, fifth edition

by Jesse Liberty, Rogers Cadenhead
April 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
464 pages
9h 18m
English
Sams
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Hour 19. Storing Information in Linked Lists

Linked Lists and Other Structures

Arrays are much like Tupperware products. They are great containers, but they are each a fixed size. If you pick a container that is too large, you waste space in your storage area. If you pick one that is too small, there’s not enough room to hold what you need to store.

One way to solve this problem is with a linked list. A linked list is a data structure that consists of small containers that connect together. Containers, in this context, are classes that contain the objects to be held in the list. The idea is to write ...

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