Now that you have an understanding of what nodes are, let’s see a Swift implementation!
We will create a basic Node class that contains data and a link to the next Node. Our Node‘s data will be specified as a String but the same class could easily be changed to hold any other data type. Remember that a Node‘s link to the next Node is nil when there are no more nodes to traverse.
Take a look at the starter code in the editor. You will find the Node class defined for you.
Instructions
Let’s begin by defining properties for our Node class.
Since a node contains data, define a variable stored property named data, of type String. Then create an initializer with a parameter data of String type that sets the class’s data property to the passed-in data argument.
Let’s check what we’ve done so far! Below the Node class, create a new Node instance named firstNode initialized with the argument, "I am a Node!".
Print out firstNode‘s data to check if it was set correctly.