Never worked with hashmaps before, does anyone have any good resources. i cannot seem to find a platform to manipulate to make something similar so it appears i am going to have to go at it alone and from the ground up.
The "hash" part is an implementation detail. It might be a "map" (e.g. C++), a "hashmap" (e.g. Java), a "dict" (e.g. Python) or an "object" (e.g. Javascript). Basically anything that gives O(log n) lookup or better will be fine