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✏️ Learn how to write a hash table in C observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/jamesroutley/write-a-hash-table · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

23/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 8
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3316
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 991
  • n_releases_24m: 0

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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

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