Everyone would probably agree it's good to teach trees in a CS data structures class. Linked lists make a nice introduction to this: what is a linked list excep

Everyone would probably agree it's good to teach trees in a CS data structures class. Linked lists make a nice introduction to this: what is a linked list except a tree with max branching factor 1? So you teach LLs on day one, and introduce in the simplest useful way the idea of a recursive data structure.