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David Babcock (courtesy of James Moscola)Department of Physical SciencesYork College of Pennsylvania

CS 350 : Data StructuresLinked Lists

Department of Physical SciencesYork College of Pennsylvania

Monday, September 3, 12

CS 350: Data Structures

Linked Lists

• Come in a variety of different forms- singly linked lists- doubly linked lists- circular linked lists

• Composed of a set of nodes that hold data and contain one or more pointers to neighboring nodes in the list- singly linked lists contain only a pointer to the next node in the list- doubly linked lists contain a pointer to the next node and the

previous node in the list

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Linked List Operations

• Basic operations include:-insert / add

-remove

• Additional operations may include:-getFirst

-getLast

-find

-isEmpty

-makeEmpty

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Linked List Insertion

• Basic implementation uses a head pointer that points to the first node in the list- Points to null upon initialization when no nodes exist in the list

• Depending on implementation, insertion may take place at the head of the list, at the tail of the list, or at some other specified node

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Start with Empty List

head points to the front of the linked list

tail points to the back of the linked list

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Linked List Removal

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Linked List Removal

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Linked List Removal

• Removing last value is not very efficient when using singly linked lists- Want to make next-to-last node in list the last node- Must traverse entire list, starting from the head, to find the next-to-

last node in the list- O(N)

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Linked List Implementation

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public class LinkedListNode<E> { public E data; public LinkedListNode<E> next; }




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// Inserts at the tail of the list

public void insert (E data) { LinkedListNode<E> newNode = new LinkedListNode<E>(); newNode.data = data; // assign data to newNode tail.next = newNode; tail = newNode; }




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// Inserts at the tail of the list


This method is oversimplified, what happensif this is called when the list is empty?




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// Inserts at the tail of the list public void insert (E data) { LinkedListNode<E> newNode = new LinkedListNode<E>(); newNode.data = data; // assign data to newNode if (isEmpty()) { head = tail = newNode; } else { tail.next = newNode; tail = newNode; } }

Fixed insert method




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// Inserts at the head of the list public void insertAtHead (E data) { LinkedListNode<E> newNode = new LinkedListNode<E>(); newNode.data = data; // assign data to newNode newNode.next = head; head = newNode; }




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This method is oversimplified, what happensif this is called when the list is empty?




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// Inserts at the head of the list public void insertAtHead (E data) { LinkedListNode<E> newNode = new LinkedListNode<E>(); newNode.data = data; // assign data to newNode newNode.next = head;

if (!isEmpty()) { head = newNode; } else { head = tail = newNode; } }




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// Removes node from head of list and returns its value public E remove() { if (head != null) { E nodeData = head.data; head = head.next; return nodeData; } else { return null; } }



Considerations for Linked List Implementation

• Implementation as previously shown requires a error checking in the insert and remove methods to check for edge cases (i.e. checking for an empty list)

• To improve the speed of the Linked List operations, it is possible to remove these tests- Tradeoff: speedup comes at the expense of one additional ‘dummy’

node in the Linked List

• Idea: create a dummy node that exists in the linked list at ALL times ... it is created as part of the list and points to the head node- Eliminates the need to always check for null- Generalized the insert and remove methods

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• Implementation as previously shown requires error checking in the insert and remove methods to check for edge cases (i.e. checking for an empty list)

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Linked List with Header Node

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