Would their be any use in doing a TRIE data structure article based around the .net language?

I imagine that would depend on the audience.

Well if you want to do to learn about .net or something that would be fine, but I do nto think there is any real use it beyond educational value. Any decent programmer (haha any Csci grad could do it in there sleep, *shutters* remembering my data structures classes ) could do that with out much trouble in a .net language.

And there are already good totourals out there for those that have forgotten those Data sctucs classes.
Eg. http://www.thecodeproject.com/csharp/patriciatrie.asp

But if you want to do so have at it

This post has been edited by spector: Jul 29 2005, 09:21 PM

No doubt that it isn't hard to do spector, I was asking to see if anyone felt it would be educational to them as their is not that much on TRIE structures being done using .net. You listed the most common one found on google, the Patricia trie. This seems to be the only one covered in depth that I could find and due to myself already understandind several different TRIE data structures I was concidering writing about it.

The subject is covered well in other languages (although I understood it before any classes on data structures/algorithms) and is a easy concept I was thinking of our audiance here and if it would help them as I didn't know who here uses what languages.

A tutorial is always for educational value, what other purpose would it be written for?

I guess I'm confused as to why you asked to begin with then. There are hundreds of tutorials all covering the same topics, but that doesn't stop people from writing more. The thing to consider is that the way you word something may make more sense to the person reading it than the way someone else worded it did, so there is always value in the effort as far as I'm concerned.

I doubt that it would be in high demand of the immediate audience here, but that isn't to say that it wouldn't help people that visit the site currently and/or in the future.

I asked to see if their was a interest from the ppl on this forum, that is why I asked here and not someone else, if their was an interest I would write it and post it here instead of somewhere else. I may still write it at some point in time but I would rather write articles which would have an inpact on the users here at this point in time (unless I'm being paid then I'll do as my editor tells me to)

Just write it and post it.

Go ahead and write it, I am sure it will be helpful to some. Personally I find language of implantation to be a minor issue, I think it is trivial to go between languages if you know basic concepts. But if you are going to do a .net language it may be more interesting if you tried one of the less common ones.
C# is so close to Java that you can other then changing the necessary library calls you can all most compile a Java app with C#, and Well VB.net is just not very interesting, Mranda or F# on the other hand might be cool.

Yeah I could do that before my Data Scruc classes too, I just have then burned in to my head after that hoard class. We had to memorize varus data structs implantations and recite them on tests.. I think that is a awful way to teach that matteral but that is another topic all together.

I'm not a fan of .net stuff but due to getting some interesting job offers it seems as though I need to lookm more closely at it and that's yet another reason I'm doing it around .net. I agree if you understand the concepts you should be able to implement them in any language but alot of programmers learn much easier if they can see an example in a language they understand.

Learning has to be fun or less gets retained but thats just my opinion.

weren't you going to write an article on WI-FI protocols or something?? I am still waiting for that one..



That sounded interesting

Ya, I had some file corruption and lost my work on that but I can still do it if your interested. I wrote a article on win2k TCP/IP since thern but I won't know if I can release it to public untill later this comming month (due to an editor looking at it)

I am would interesting in see the wi-fi article