When JavaScript was first introduced to the world it didn't have a dedicated Array data structure - it simply didn't need one, but it got one nevertheless! Here we look at the Array object, which is ...

JavaScript lets you do so much with so little as we show here by implementing a Lisp-like list data structure. The purpose of this article isn't to demonstrate how to implement the list processing ...

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how powerful ...

A data structure is a specialized format for organizing, processing, retrieving and storing data. There are several basic and advanced types of data structures, all designed to arrange data to suit a ...