Day 5: Completing the Chain - Deletion and Abstractions

After reading this chapter and engaging in the embedded activities and reflections, you should be able to:

• Implement deletion operations for linked lists
• Handle edge cases in linked list deletion
• Identify common operations shared by different data structures
• Distinguish between abstract concepts and concrete implementations
• Compare performance characteristics of arrays vs linked lists
• Make informed decisions about data structure selection
• Recognize the emergence of Abstract Data Types (ADTs)