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The Complete Coding Interview Guide in Java

You're reading from   The Complete Coding Interview Guide in Java An effective guide for aspiring Java developers to ace their programming interviews

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839212062
Length 788 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Anghel Leonard Anghel Leonard
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Table of Contents (25) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: The Non-Technical Part of an Interview
2. Chapter 1: Where to Start and How to Prepare for the Interview FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: What Interviews at Big Companies Look Like 4. Chapter 3: Common Non-Technical Questions and How To Answer Them 5. Chapter 4: How to Handle Failures 6. Chapter 5: How to Approach a Coding Challenge 7. Section 2: Concepts
8. Chapter 6: Object-Oriented Programming 9. Chapter 7: Big O Analysis of Algorithms 10. Chapter 8: Recursion and Dynamic Programming 11. Chapter 9: Bit Manipulation 12. Section 3: Algorithms and Data Structures
13. Chapter 10: Arrays and Strings 14. Chapter 11: Linked Lists and Maps 15. Chapter 12: Stacks and Queues 16. Chapter 13: Trees and Graphs 17. Chapter 14: Sorting and Searching 18. Chapter 15: Mathematics and Puzzles 19. Section 4: Bonus – Concurrency and Functional Programming
20. Chapter 16: Concurrency 21. Chapter 17: Functional-Style Programming 22. Chapter 18: Unit Testing 23. Chapter 19: System Scalability 24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Queues in a nutshell

A queue is a linear data structure that uses the First-In-First-Out (FIFO) principle. Think of people standing in a queue to buy stuff. You can also imagine ants that are walking in a queue formation.

So, technically speaking, the elements are removed from the queue in the same order that they are added. In a queue, the elements added at one end referred to as the rear (this operation is known as the enqueue operation) and removed from the other end referred to as the front (this operation is known as the dequeue or poll operation).

The common operations in a queue are as follows:

  • enqueue(E e): Adds an element to the rear of the queue
  • E dequeue(): Removes and returns the element from the front of the queue
  • E peek(): Returns (but doesn't remove) the element from the front of the queue
  • boolean isEmpty(): Returns true if the queue is empty
  • int size(): Returns the size of the queue
  • boolean isFull() : Returns true if the queue...
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