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Just in time to help you spread some cheer this holiday season, the dad jokes are back as we dig into the details of hash tables and dictionaries.
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We continue our deep dive into data structures, this time focusing in on arrays and array-like types as Allen gives Shania Twain some singing competition, Joe is going to owe us another tattoo, and wait … when does Michael think C++ was invented?
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TL;DR: Don’t do weird stuff to JavaScript arrays.
*ahem*
In the standard definition of Array data structures in Computer Science, arrays are a collection of like elements where any member may be accessed by an index. That definition doesn’t sound very different from an Hash Table or it’s ilk, but the key distinctions here are that the elements of the array must take up the same size in memory, and that the array indexes need to be numeric so that the logical address of any individual element can be derived from that number.
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We begin our journey into data structures by taking a deep dive into primitives while Allen makes Michael blush and Joe crashes his browser.
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