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ITERATORS in C++

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Well, instead of just dereferencing it, you can actually use the arrow operator and access to little elements here.', 'start': 746.627, 'duration': 7.725}, {'end': 755.973, 'text': 'We have first and second.', 'start': 754.392, 'duration': 1.581}, {'end': 758.194, 'text': 'First is going to be the key.', 'start': 756.433, 'duration': 1.761}, {'end': 761.516, 'text': 'So I can just go ahead and assign that to key like that.', 'start': 758.394, 'duration': 3.122}, {'end': 764.378, 'text': 'And then the second one is going to be my value.', 'start': 761.997, 'duration': 2.381}, {'end': 769.701, 'text': "And I'll just use the ampersand here to get this as a reference so that I'm not actually copying the value.", 'start': 764.418, 'duration': 5.283}, {'end': 772.463, 'text': 'So I have iterator first and iterator second.', 'start': 770.102, 'duration': 2.361}, {'end': 774.624, 'text': "Let's go ahead and print that out to the console.", 'start': 772.643, 'duration': 1.981}, {'end': 775.465, 'text': "We'll print the key.", 'start': 774.644, 'duration': 0.821}, {'end': 779.587, 'text': 'followed by an equals sign and then value like this.', 'start': 775.965, 'duration': 3.622}, {'end': 781.268, 'text': "Let's go ahead and run this.", 'start': 780.087, 'duration': 1.181}, {'end': 787.171, 'text': 'And in fact, what I might do is just take away the other code that we had here to keep our console nice and clean.', 'start': 781.328, 'duration': 5.843}, {'end': 788.172, 'text': 'All right, check this out.', 'start': 787.371, 'duration': 0.801}, {'end': 790.793, 'text': 'So we have churner equals five and C++ equals two.', 'start': 788.212, 'duration': 2.581}, {'end': 792.714, 'text': "Cool We're able to iterate through all of this.", 'start': 791.013, 'duration': 1.701}, {'end': 797.217, 'text': 'Now, how can we maybe improve this code to make it a little bit better?', 'start': 793.174, 'duration': 4.043}, {'end': 802.464, 'text': 'How can we use the same kind of range-based for loops, but with a map?', 'start': 797.337, 'duration': 5.127}, {'end': 803.826, 'text': "well, let's check that out.", 'start': 802.464, 'duration': 1.362}, {'end': 807.051, 'text': "so i'm going to write for auto kv.", 'start': 803.826, 'duration': 3.225}, {'end': 809.976, 'text': "that's going to stand for key value in this case and then map.", 'start': 807.051, 'duration': 2.925}, {'end': 812.509, 'text': "Yeah, it's that simple.", 'start': 811.109, 'duration': 1.4}, {'end': 817.39, 'text': 'So what this will do is actually retrieve this pair, this iterator first and iterator second.', 'start': 812.629, 'duration': 4.761}, {'end': 819.931, 'text': "If you actually look at what it is, it's an std pair.", 'start': 817.751, 'duration': 2.18}, {'end': 822.892, 'text': 'So this is us now retrieving that std pair.', 'start': 820.251, 'duration': 2.641}, {'end': 826.152, 'text': 'And now we can actually access the elements from within that.', 'start': 823.332, 'duration': 2.82}], 'summary': 'Using arrow operator and ampersand, iterate through map and print key-value pairs in c++.', 'duration': 79.525, 'max_score': 746.627, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/SgcHcbQ0RCQ/pics/SgcHcbQ0RCQ746627.jpg'}, {'end': 894.957, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 844.397, 'weight': 3, 'content': [{'end': 849.159, 'text': 'All right, as you can see, we get the same result obviously, but this again looks a lot cleaner.', 'start': 844.397, 'duration': 4.762}, {'end': 852.52, 'text': 'Now, can we do better than that? 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(Relevance: 5)', 'The video addresses the relevance of iterators, especially in educational settings, where outdated C++ standards may still be in use, highlighting the importance of understanding iterators for traversing different data structures. (Relevance: 4)', 'The speaker emphasizes the importance of understanding iterators, especially for traversing complex data structures like sets, maps, and trees, which cannot be efficiently traversed using the index operator. (Relevance: 3)', 'The chapter explains that iterators can be implemented in various ways, similar to operator overloading, allowing flexibility in usage, and clarifies that iterators are not limited to standard data structures. (Relevance: 2)', 'The speaker highlights the misconception of overlooking iterators when dealing with simple data structures like vectors, where the index operator suffices, but emphasizes the necessity of iterators for more complex data structures. (Relevance: 1)']}