Guided Lesson Notes
Understanding Types of Linked List
Types of Linked List focuses on restricted access order and how items enter, wait, move, or leave a structure. Singly, doubly, and circular linked lists provide different navigation and update tradeoffs.
Model: draw the structure as a line of items and mark the only legal places where an operation can touch it.
Invariant: after each operation, the front, back, top, head, tail, or current pointer must still describe the true structure.
Implementation: a small set of operations such as push, pop, peek, enqueue, dequeue, insert, remove, and traversal.
Use Types of Linked List when the problem mentions undo, matching, next greater value, waiting order, recent history, or processing items in arrival order.
