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Learning JavaScript Data  Structures and Algorithms

You're reading from   Learning JavaScript Data Structures and Algorithms Write complex and powerful JavaScript code using the latest ECMAScript

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788623872
Length 426 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Loiane Avancini Loiane Avancini
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Preface 1. JavaScript – A Quick Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. ECMAScript and TypeScript Overview 3. Arrays 4. Stacks 5. Queues and Deques 6. Linked Lists 7. Sets 8. Dictionaries and Hashes 9. Recursion 10. Trees 11. Binary Heap and Heap Sort 12. Graphs 13. Sorting and Searching Algorithms 14. Algorithm Designs and Techniques 15. Algorithm Complexity 16. Other Books You May Enjoy

Why should we use arrays?


Let's consider that we need to store the average temperature of each month of the year for the city that we live in. We could use something similar to the following to store this information:

const averageTempJan = 31.9; 
const averageTempFeb = 35.3; 
const averageTempMar = 42.4; 
const averageTempApr = 52; 
const averageTempMay = 60.8; 

However, this is not the best approach. If we store the temperature for only one year, we can manage 12 variables. However, what if we need to store the average temperature for more than one year? Fortunately, this is why arrays were created, and we can easily represent the same information mentioned earlier as follows:

const averageTemp = []; 
averageTemp[0] = 31.9; 
averageTemp[1] = 35.3; 
averageTemp[2] = 42.4; 
averageTemp[3] = 52; 
averageTemp[4] = 60.8; 

We can also represent the averageTemp array graphically:

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