Overview The Map interface is a part of the Collection framework. However, Map doesn’t implement Collection. Why is it a part of the Collection framework? It’s because Map by nature is a collection of elements. Implementations of the Map interface are used in other members of the Collection framework. One example is the HashSet class … Read more
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Overview A priority queue is an interesting data structure in Java. The key term here is “priority”. That means the queue is ordered by priority of the elements, not the order they are added. Let’s consider an example: When that function is run, the output is: As you can see, the order of elements in … Read more
Overview In this post, we are going to learn about Deque in Java (pronounced deck) and its implementation. It may surprise you to see LinkedList is a queue. LinkedList is a queue and also a list. That means it has all the characteristics of a List and also a Deque. What is a Deque in … Read more
An overview of the queue interface in java