Chapter 5, Problem 26C

Program Plan Intro

Initial consideration:

There is a need to provide the definition of a singly linked list that is not using any node class in its general terms singly linked list is a kind of data structure where every node in the data structure has a pointer to the next node.

Singly linked list:

• The simplest form of linked list is the singly linked list.
• The linked list is basic building block for the implementation of the other data structures like stacks and queue.
• The linked list is having numbers of sequence of nodes that contains the required data fields and pointer to the next and previous nodes.
• The operations like addition and removal of existing node from the linked list will take constant amount of time.
• In linked list the upper limit for memory reservation is not exist unlike the array data structures and the containing elements is not required to be contiguous in memory.
• All the internal nodes in the linked list are pointing to the next node in the list and there is only one link that is pointing to the next node in the linked list.
• As the name linked list says that the nodes are linked to each other by the means of a pointer which is connecting to the next node in the list and if the current node is the last node of the list then the pointer points to NULL.
• The operation in the linked list such as addition and removal of node is performed while creation of new node and it involves lots of adjustments of the nodes.