Well the code does run.

Of course the first thing missing is short description of what the code does.
I had to run it to see what it did.
like perhaps: 

/*  Makes a linked list with new items inserted at the front.
    The list is then searched to find the last item (the item
    first inserted) and then the list is modified to remove
    all entries with data less than that item.

    The list is printed after all insertions and again after 
    the deletions.
*/

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The code does demo some basic understanding of linked lists.
However there is some bizarre stuff...
reverseList() is not at all necessary (unless that was part of the problem assignment).
If that was part of the assignment, then I would expect that there would have been a requirement to print the reversed list.

The algorithm to delete all items less than the last one, traverses the list 3 times. Once to reverse the list to find the "last"; process list to delete items less than the "last"; reverse the list again.
It is only necessary to traverse the list twice. Once to find the "tail". And once to "shorten" the list. reverseList() appears to be unnecessary code.

Update: If anybody out there wants to take on a significant C freeware project, I am interested in re-coding agrep, a approximate matching version of grep. The speed of this thing is stunning. The algorithms are excellent and generated 2 Phd's. Unfortunately, the authors weren't very good C coders and the software has issues. This thing will occasionally miss matches that it should have found. The last I heard from the maintainer, a complete re-write is in order.

In reply to Re^11: [OT:] Is this Curriculum right? by Marshall
in thread [OT:] Is this Curriculum right? by karlgoethebier

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