I’m Learning Hash Tables (And Why You Should Care)

I have a goal for my learning: to gain mastery so quickly and deeply that I can help my beloved ones master it too. Today, that topic is Hash Tables. If you’ve ever wondered how Google finds a search result in milliseconds or how a database finds your profile out of millions of users, the answer is usually a Hash Table. To understand how they work, let’s step away from the computer and walk into a local provision store. Imagine Ibrahim runs a busy provision store. His brother, Mubarak, just arri