jamesroutley/write-a-hash-table resource
✏️ Learn how to write a hash table in C observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
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- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
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4378 stars · 331 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
A step-by-step tutorial teaching how to implement an open-addressed, double-hashed hash table in C in about 200 lines of code. It is an educational resource rather than a production library.
Use cases
- learn how hash tables work under the hood
- implement a hash table from scratch in C
- understand open addressing and double hashing
- study collision handling and table resizing
- practice C programming with data structures
When to choose
- you want to learn data structure internals through hands-on coding
- you are comfortable with C basics and want a short guided project
- you need to understand when and why hash tables fail
When to avoid
- you need a production-ready hash table for real applications
- you want a battle-tested data structures library
- you don't know any C and want a language-agnostic tutorial
Facets
learning-resource · maturity stable
developer-tools tutorials developer-tools cross-platform hash-table data-structures c tutorial educational algorithms
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/jamesroutley/write-a-hash-table · fetched 2026-08-28 · 37b482662dd3
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