I just emailed my teacher asking for an explanation and an example of what this asking for . If you all could see my face, it's like a deer looking at headlights

here is what he said:

yes the book only has the ADT which is an abstract structure and for the assignment you need to implement the actual code for these ADT functions. for the polynomial, you may need to use a linked list to store the data such as the degree and coefficient which becomes an abstract model for the polynomial. the question already gives some details and you need to think about how to implement in code. You may search online to find some examples how to represent the polynomial in case you still get confused.


I asked for an example that would give me an idea of what the book is not showing me.
Is a linked list what I want to put my efforts into ?