Computer

Version Control is a practice that is not just used in software development but other domains like engineering and general documentation. Let us have a brief look at what it is all about.

I have not used Floppy Disks a lot - but I have had my share as I started of my experience with computers in CLIs. Over the years, the scope of data storage from a consumer perspective has grown in scale - from floppy disks to TeraDisks.

Today, I will just recap on the various topics we covered with respect to computer hardware and software in the past several weeks.

Journey Of Code - The world-view of the hardware and software realm, and how they are interconnected.

I stumbled across this topic, when I was researching the topic of Photoshop Vs GIMP.

This time, we will look at yet another data structure - tree. The structure of the tree is quite different from the linked list. Going into details of tree data structure makes it look much lesser like a list and more like - well - a tree.

We have been looking into data structures in this series. First we looked at linked list, and then a specialization of it - the queue. The linked list can also be specialized to form a structure, that is called Stack.

In the last post of the series, we looked at the linked list - the basic form of data structure. In this part, we will look at the specialized type of a linked list - a queue.

The queue is nothing but a linked list, and the protocols to add and remove data from the queue are specified in a certain way. These specific constraints, when applied to a linked list, gives us a queue.

Data structures give order to the abstract world of code (software). There are many types of data structure. Among them linked list is the most fundamental type of data structure. Using one or another form of linked list, other data structures (queues or stacks for example) can be created.

Let us look at the theory behind linked list. I promise to try and make it interesting.

As we came to the end of the Journey Of Code series, we moved on from the realm of hardware and stepped into the world of software - the abstract world. Software can be called abstract because there is really no physical structure for it. And these abstract concepts can easily become disorganized.

The series, Journey Of Code, comes to an end with this post.