5 Minute Beginner’s Guide to Java’s Linked List Data Structure
5 min readApr 16, 2018
What is a Linked List?
Often used to implement other data structures, such as stacks, queues and trees, a linked list is a linear data structure. Forming what can be thought of as a linked chain, a linked list is a sequence of nodes. Each node stores its own data and a pointer (address) to the location of the next node. The last link in a…