If you were stuck on a desert island with just one data structure, which would it be and why?
This is a silly but fun question, and after giving it some thought, my answer most likely shouldn't surprise most readers: A balanced binary se
Bloom Filters
Bloom filters have been around for a while, 1970 to be exact. They're not exactly the star of any university data structures class. There are much "sexier" (yeah, i know.) data structures like self balancing search trees, hash t
Part 2: expanding the collision resolution repertoire
Welcome back for part two of my articles on hash tables. In my previous article i covered the basics of linear probing. In this article i will discuss another popular collision resolution t
In part one of my article on open address hash tables i discuss hash functions, initializing the table and buckets, as well as insertion and searching via linear probing.
Exploring binary heaps for efficiently implementing the Priority Queue ADT.
The Priority Queue ADT
Unlike a regular queue which operates on a first-in first-out fashion, or the Last-in First-out ordering of a stack, a priorit
-
The Aho, Sethi, Ullman Direct DFA Construction, Part 1: Constructing the Followpos Table
-
Procedural Map Generation with Binary Space Partitioning
-
Exact Match String Searching: The Knuth-Morris-Pratt Algorithm
-
The visitor pattern: OOP takes on the Expression Problem
-
Improving mgcLisp's define syntax
-
Separating the Men from the Boys, Knuth Style
-
Reducing rotations during deletion from AVL trees
-
Parsing Lisp: From Data To Code
-
Swiz Heaps: A deterministic modification of Randomized Meldable Heaps
-
Let's talk Eval/Apply