Add new examples and update homework solution

shared/notes-and-examples/2026.03.18/linear_probing.py

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+# some variants of this:
+# "quad" probing: use an exponential instead of just adding
+
+class Dictionary:
+    backing: "list" = [None] * 100
+
+    def hash(self, key: str):
+        ord_total = 0;
+        for letter in key:
+            ord_total += ord(letter)
+        return ord_total % len(self.backing)
+
+    def get_actual_index_recursion(self, key: str, num_attempts = 0):
+        index = self.hash(key) + num_attempts
+
+        if self.backing[index] is not None and self.backing[index][0] != key:
+            return self.get_actual_index_recursion(key, num_attempts + 1)
+
+        return index
+    
+    def get_actual_index_loop(self, key: str):
+        # the loop version; works pretty much the same
+        index = self.hash(key)
+        while self.backing[index] is not None and self.backing[index][0] != key:
+            index += 1
+        
+        return index
+
+    def get(self, key: str):
+        index = self.get_actual_index_recursion(key)
+        return self.backing[index][1]
+
+    def set(self, key: str, value):
+        index = self.get_actual_index_recursion(key)
+        # instead of storing just values, store tuples (key-value pairs)
+        self.backing[index] = (key, value)
+
+sample_dict = Dictionary()
+sample_dict.set("test string", "test value")
+sample_dict.set("tets string", "this value will *not* overwrite the other one")
+print(sample_dict.get("test string"))
+print(sample_dict.get("tets string"))
+
+print(sample_dict.backing)