Week 8 Impressions - LinkedLists

Week 8 was different, if I had to summarize it in one word. LinkedLists was the main topic of the week, and after finishing trees and nodes, and connected forms of data, a LinkedList seemed along the same line of a thought process. The main idea of the LinkedList isn't that complicated when you simply imagine it, but the algorithm was a bit confusing to completely understand. I still have a couple questions...but now that the TA's are on strike Google will have to pass as a sufficient teacher.

I think after looking at the code a couple of times, and tracing through it, I can look at the code for a LinkedList and understand it, but implementing it in my code is a bitttttt further down the path. Professor Horton has done a great job so far when she is explaining the self.front and self.back concepts, and it's much more clear now than it was when they concepts were first presented.

To me a LinkedList is like a group of people holding hands to form a line. With the first person's arm connecting it themselves to the one before, and the person's body being the value, where the person's other arm is what connects him to the last person. You can also see that the first person is equivalent to self.front, and the last person is self.back.

WELLLLL, that was my impression for the 8th week of class, and it was tough, but I can't wait for the next couple of weeks of classes.