CSE13 · CSE foundations & data structures
Hash Map Collisions
Build a tiny hash map with buckets and see what happens when two keys land in the same bucket.
🎯 You will learn to
- Hash keys into buckets
- Handle collisions with chaining
- Relate load factor to speed
🧪 Live environment
Runs entirely in your browser: nothing is installed, no real cloud account is used and your code is never sent to our server.
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✅ Steps & checkpoints
🗺️ Hash map buckets
The hash function turns a key into a bucket index; two keys in one bucket are kept in a small list (chaining).
The 2D diagram shows the exact flow, ports and trust boundaries. The 3D scene is a concept view of the same parts; packets travel along the same arrows.
🤔 Think about it
Why do hash maps get slower when they are too full?
🛡️ Safety & cost
Simulations and in-browser runtimes only.
🧹 Cleanup
Nothing to clean up.
📚 Reference documents
- Introduction to Algorithms (6.006) · MIT OpenCourseWare
- The Python Tutorial · Python
- SQL as understood by SQLite · SQLite
- Linux man pages · man7.org
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