This video teaches you everything you need to know about hashmaps. I came up with the contents of this video when I was preparing for my interviews a couple of years ago, so I wanteto share what I think every software engineer should know about hash maps. Of course, there's a lot more to know about hash maps, and I might make more videos about it, but this one covers the key concepts and ideas.

By the end of this video, you will have a solid understanding of how hash maps work, why they are important, the differences between open and closed addressing, and the various techniques employed to optimize their performance, and so on.

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Resources:

Examples of a good hash function: http://www.cse.yorku.ca/~oz/hash.html
Closed Addressing Example: https://github.com/freezing/data-stru...
Open Addressing Example: https://github.com/freezing/data-stru...
Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen (affiliate link): https://www.amazon.co.uk/Introduction...

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Timecodes
00:00 - Intro
00:16 - Why Hash Maps?
00:46 - What is a Hash Map?
01:21 - Hash Function
02:01 - Collisions
02:41 - Closed Addressing
03:19 - Complexity Analysis
04:06 - Load Factor
05:16 - Open Addressing
07:01 - Linear Probing
08:02 - Double Hashing
09:04 - Searching in Open Addressing
09:54 - Should I use open or closed addressing?
10:49 - What is a good hash function?
11:26 - Outro