When I first met Susan in a cafe in Paris 20 years ago, one of the very first things I told her was that I had a list of all the things I was going to see in Paris during my vacation there. According to Susan, my super geeky line in asking her to join me on some sightseeing went as follows: “I am going to do all the things on this list, so happy to start wherever you want." A lot of things have changed in the two decades since but my love for lists continues: I still keep many different lists...

When I first met Susan in a cafe in Paris 20 years ago, one of the very first things I told her was that I had a list of all the things I was going to see in Paris during my vacation there. According to Susan, my super geeky line in asking her to join me on some sightseeing went as follows: “I am going to do all the things on this list, so happy to start wherever you want." A lot of things have changed in the two decades since but my love for lists continues: I still keep many different lists...

As previously promised, this will be the last Tech Tuesday post on Data Structures for a while and starting next week we will return to other aspects of programming. Much of what we have seen in the previous data structure posts are structures that are built into the respective programming languages, such as structs in C, associative arrays in PHP, JSON in Javascript, objects in PHP and multi-dimensional arrays in C. Today we will take a look at rolling our own data structures that let us set...

As previously promised, this will be the last Tech Tuesday post on Data Structures for a while and starting next week we will return to other aspects of programming. Much of what we have seen in the previous data structure posts are structures that are built into the respective programming languages, such as structs in C, associative arrays in PHP, JSON in Javascript, objects in PHP and multi-dimensional arrays in C. Today we will take a look at rolling our own data structures that let us set...