GEONOLOGY Concept C#

[linxKuLiT]

i have here my code:

namespace GEONOLOGY
{
    public class AGENT
    {
       int no;
       String  name;
       AGENT left;
       AGENT right;
      //not yet develop the implementation.
    }
}

Can anyone share some code of Geonology using C#?

[tlhintoq]

Original Poster: How do I design and build my entire application?

This is far too broad of a question to be answered in a thread. I recommend you read the FAQ about How to ask a good question so the volunteers will be able to help you.


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Has many, many great, real-world tips that I use all the time.

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[linxKuLiT]

Thanks' Your links would be very helpful for my development.

One thing I wanted to know:
I have tried the Link-List using pointer in C-Language.
Is the idea of Link-List applied in Geneology?...

I've been looking around from other sites but they just give me samples on web.

Anyone could help?.. Thanks.

[GaryTexmo]

A link list is just a data structure... whether it applies or not is up to you. If by Geneology you mean "genealogy" then that's a pretty broad concept. That's like asking if linked lists apply in particle physics, or construction. I don't know... it depends on the program you're writing and how you design/implement it.

Linked lists are for data structures where one node of data relates to another node of data in some kind of sequence and when it's not important to be able to go to any one piece of data arbitrarily. Linked lists generally perform well when you'll be traversing all the data anyway, or if there's another organization structure that might be more applicable. If you need more immediate access, typically arrays are good since you can directly access the index for each piece of data directly.

I'm by no means an expert on this topic though and other people might have different knowledge/opinions. Hopefully that helps you, but hopefully you also understand that your question can't really be answered definitively.

[linxKuLiT]

Thank you. It helps me to fully understand the concept of "genealogy".

[nukefusion]

@linxKuLiT
I wrote a genealogy program, or, in other words, some family tree software. A basic implementation is fairly easy to achieve, but be aware, if you want to develop it further it's a more in-depth topic than you might first realise.

If you want to pursue it I'd recommend learning a bit about graph theory. A family tree is just a great big graph. There are already loads of proven algorithms for searching graphs and these will be useful to you when searching for ancestral relationships, etc.

Read about graph theory, search algorithms such as DFS, BFS and check out the Boost libraries, I don't know if there's a C# port but the documentation will nevertheless be interesting.

Good luck!