Chapter 8Crafting Elegant Code with Stacks and Queues
Until now, our discussion around data structures has focused primarily on how they affect the performance of various operations. However, having a variety of data structures in your programming arsenal allows you to create code that is simpler and easier to read.
In this chapter, you’re going to discover two new data structures: stacks and queues. The truth is that these two structures are not entirely new. They’re simply arrays with restrictions. Yet, these restrictions are exactly what make them so elegant.
More specifically, stacks and queues are elegant tools for handling temporary data. From operating system architecture to printing jobs to traversing data, stacks and queues serve as ...
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