Creating a very simple linked list

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I am trying to create a linked list just to see if I can, and I am having trouble getting my head around it. Does anyone have an example of a very simple implementation of Linked list using C#? All the examples I have found so far are quite overdone.

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I've created the following LinkedList code with many features. It is available for public under the CodeBase github public repo.

Classes: Node and LinkedList

Getters and Setters: First and Last

Functions: AddFirst(data), AddFirst(node), AddLast(data), RemoveLast(), AddAfter(node, data), RemoveBefore(node), Find(node), Remove(foundNode), Print(LinkedList)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

namespace Codebase
{
    public class Node
    {
        public object Data { get; set; }
        public Node Next { get; set; }

        public Node()
        {
        }

        public Node(object Data, Node Next = null)
        {
            this.Data = Data;
            this.Next = Next;
        }
    }

    public class LinkedList
    {
        private Node Head;
        public Node First
        {
            get => Head;
            set
            {
                First.Data = value.Data;
                First.Next = value.Next;
            }
        }

        public Node Last
        {
            get
            {
                Node p = Head;
                //Based partially on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_list
                while (p.Next != null)
                    p = p.Next; //traverse the list until p is the last node.The last node always points to NULL.

                return p;
            }
            set
            {
                Last.Data = value.Data;
                Last.Next = value.Next;
            }
        }

        public void AddFirst(Object data, bool verbose = true)
        {
            Head = new Node(data, Head);
            if (verbose) Print();
        }

        public void AddFirst(Node node, bool verbose = true)
        {
            node.Next = Head;
            Head = node;
            if (verbose) Print();
        }

        public void AddLast(Object data, bool Verbose = true)
        {
            Last.Next = new Node(data);
            if (Verbose) Print();
        }

        public Node RemoveFirst(bool verbose = true)
        {
            Node temp = First;
            Head = First.Next;
            if (verbose) Print();
            return temp;
        }

        public Node RemoveLast(bool verbose = true)
        {
            Node p = Head;
            Node temp = Last;

            while (p.Next != temp)
                p = p.Next;

            p.Next = null;
            if (verbose) Print();

            return temp;
        }

        public void AddAfter(Node node, object data, bool verbose = true)
        {
            Node temp = new Node(data);
            temp.Next = node.Next;
            node.Next = temp;

            if (verbose) Print();
        }

        public void AddBefore(Node node, object data, bool verbose = true)
        {
            Node temp = new Node(data);

            Node p = Head;

            while (p.Next != node) //Finding the node before
            {
                p = p.Next;
            }

            temp.Next = p.Next; //same as  = node
            p.Next = temp;

            if (verbose) Print();
        }

        public Node Find(object data)
        {
            Node p = Head;

            while (p != null)
            {
                if (p.Data == data)
                    return p;

                p = p.Next;
            }
            return null;
        }

        public void Remove(Node node, bool verbose = true)
        {
            Node p = Head;

            while (p.Next != node)
            {
                p = p.Next;
            }

            p.Next = node.Next;
            if (verbose) Print();
        }

        public void Print()
        {
            Node p = Head;
            while (p != null) //LinkedList iterator
            {
                Console.Write(p.Data + " ");
                p = p.Next; //traverse the list until p is the last node.The last node always points to NULL.
            }
            Console.WriteLine();
        }
    }
}

Using @yogihosting answer when she used the Microsoft built-in LinkedList and LinkedListNode to answer the question, you can achieve the same results:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using Codebase;

namespace Cmd
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var tune = new LinkedList(); //Using custom code instead of the built-in LinkedList<T>
            tune.AddFirst("do"); // do
            tune.AddLast("so"); // do - so
            tune.AddAfter(tune.First, "re"); // do - re- so
            tune.AddAfter(tune.First.Next, "mi"); // do - re - mi- so
            tune.AddBefore(tune.Last, "fa"); // do - re - mi - fa- so
            tune.RemoveFirst(); // re - mi - fa - so
            tune.RemoveLast(); // re - mi - fa
            Node miNode = tune.Find("mi"); //Using custom code instead of the built in LinkedListNode
            tune.Remove(miNode); // re - fa
            tune.AddFirst(miNode); // mi- re - fa
 }
}

I have a doubly Linked List which can be used as a stack or a queue. If you look at the code and think about what it does and how it does it I bet you will understand everything about it. I am sorry but somehow I couldn't pate the full code here so I here is the link for the linkedlist(also I got the binary tree in the solution): https://github.com/szabeast/LinkedList_and_BinaryTree

A linked list is a node-based data structure. Each node designed with two portions (Data & Node Reference).Actually, data is always stored in Data portion (Maybe primitive data types eg Int, Float .etc or we can store user-defined data type also eg. Object reference) and similarly Node Reference should also contain the reference to next node, if there is no next node then the chain will end.

This chain will continue up to any node doesn't have a reference point to the next node.

Please find the source code from my tech blog - http://www.algonuts.info/linked-list-program-in-java.html

package info.algonuts;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;

class LLNode {
    int nodeValue;
    LLNode childNode;

    public LLNode(int nodeValue) {
        this.nodeValue = nodeValue;
        this.childNode = null;
    }
}

class LLCompute {
    private static LLNode temp;
    private static LLNode previousNode;
    private static LLNode newNode;
    private static LLNode headNode;

    public static void add(int nodeValue) {
        newNode = new LLNode(nodeValue);
        temp = headNode;
        previousNode = temp;
        if(temp != null)
        {   compute();  }
        else
        {   headNode = newNode; }   //Set headNode
    }

    private static void compute() {
        if(newNode.nodeValue < temp.nodeValue) {    //Sorting - Ascending Order
            newNode.childNode = temp;
            if(temp == headNode) 
            {   headNode = newNode; }
            else if(previousNode != null) 
            {   previousNode.childNode = newNode;   }
        }
        else
        {
            if(temp.childNode == null)
            {   temp.childNode = newNode;   }
            else
            {
                previousNode = temp;
                temp = temp.childNode;
                compute();
            }
        }
    }

    public static void display() {
        temp = headNode;
        while(temp != null) {
            System.out.print(temp.nodeValue+" ");
            temp = temp.childNode;
        }
    }
}

public class LinkedList {
    //Entry Point
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        //First Set Input Values
        List <Integer> firstIntList = new ArrayList <Integer>(Arrays.asList(50,20,59,78,90,3,20,40,98));   
        Iterator<Integer> ptr  = firstIntList.iterator();
        while(ptr.hasNext()) 
        {   LLCompute.add(ptr.next());  }
        System.out.println("Sort with first Set Values");
        LLCompute.display();
        System.out.println("\n");

        //Second Set Input Values
        List <Integer> secondIntList = new ArrayList <Integer>(Arrays.asList(1,5,8,100,91));   
        ptr  = secondIntList.iterator();
        while(ptr.hasNext()) 
        {   LLCompute.add(ptr.next());  }
        System.out.println("Sort with first & Second Set Values");
        LLCompute.display();
        System.out.println();
    }
}
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