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It’s been a while since I announced the new paid Substack. Today’s drop marks the fourth paid article in our Substack.
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Intuition
Today we're back with another metaphor for a linked list. Hopefully, after this longer story you'll be able to get a better idea of what a Linked List is. This follows our previous two articles on arrays and comparing algorithms and builds upon them.
If you haven’t checked them out, I suggest reading through them to get a better handle of what this article is about.
Books Galore
I love reading books and my book shelf is always bursting with a whole lot of books. I can't take a picture of it but it looks somewhat like this.
With only a few shelves, I started to run out of space pretty soon. This meant that soon, my tidy book shelf went from the nice and tidy space that I have to a messy makeshift arrangement with boxes and boxes on the floor.
I quickly realised that I needed a way to store this rapidly growing collection of books. The problem wasn’t going away but I figured I could at least store the extra books in one of the rooms in my house - in this case, room 3 is empty so we just throw it into the room.
It’s a pretty big house and sometimes it’s rather difficult to keep track of everything in each room. So I decide to write up the room number that the box is stored on in a stick note and stick it on the shelf.
Is it a little messy? Yes. But at least I don't need to buy an expensive new wooden shelf which would cost me as much as all my books combined.
pardon my bad drawing but that box with the arrow pointing elsewhere is in-fact a sticky note with the words Room 3 on it to indicate that the box is stored in room 3.
Pretty much not too long after that, another box gets filled up and we chuck it in another room since room 3 is quite small.