So in our class our professor prefers if we draw out our data structures before diving into coding. If anybody knows a resource that elaborates such things I would greatly appreciate it if you could share it.
An example of a linked list representing [2,4,6] drawing can be found here...
look at a program called graphviz. You will thank me once you need to draw a tree, linked list, or, "graph" (the data structure). This is good for drawing out a concrete example of actual data stored in your actual thing.