ed some form of utility functions, so please take our  <strong>strong recommendation to implement these utility functions.</strong> These functions are critical infrastructure for your later testing needs, and writing them is a great exercise for learning the standard linked list operations: traversing, connecting nodes, and allocating and deleting lists.</p>

<p>You might ask: should I use iteration or recursion to implement my linked list functions? For certain tasks, one approach may be tidier, but in ma