Byte Sized Episode 5: Birth of the B-tree

Today's episode of Byte Sized is about the B-tree. In computer science, a B-tree is a self-balancing tree data structure that maintains sorted data and allows searches, sequential access, insertions, and deletions in logarithmic time.

You can find more info about b-trees here...

Busying Oneself With B-Trees

Vaidehi Joshi ・ Sep 23 '17 ・ 16 min read

#computerscience #tech #programming #datastructures

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Comments

[Ben Halpern Byte Sized]

It's so typical for programmers to try and make the B stand for so many things instead of just picking something

[Ben Halpern Byte Sized]

...Naming things is hard

[Nick Taylor]

Nick Taylor

@nickytonline

4/ Naming things is hard. #devdiscuss

01:23 AM - 09 Oct 2019

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and LOL

Nick Taylor

@nickytonline

@MrTurnerj @kvlly Also, don't name your variables on Fridays. #devdiscuss #sarcasm

01:33 AM - 09 Oct 2019

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[Joe Zack]

That intro gets me every time!

[Jacob Herrington (he/him)]

👋 hi Ruby 🐶