Home / Lectures / Introduction to Algorithms

Still from the lecture
Computer Science

Lecture 8: Hashing with Chaining

Course
Introduction to Algorithms
Instructor
Erik Demaine
Department
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Recorded
Fall 2011
Level
Undergraduate
▶ Watch the lecture

Free account required. The lecture opens at MIT OpenCourseWare.

About this lecture

This lecture starts with dictionaries in Python, considers the problems with using a direct-access table, and introduces hashing. The lecture discusses hashing with chaining, which is one way of dealing with collisions.

More in Computer Science