Solving problems using queues and deques

Now that we know how to use the Queue and Deque classes, let's use them to solve some computer science problems. In this section, we will cover a simulation of the Hot Potato game with queues and also how to check whether a phrase is a palindrome with deques.

The circular queue – Hot Potato

As queues are often applied in computer science and also in our lives, there are some modified versions of the default queue we implemented in this chapter. One of the modified versions is the circular queue. An example of a circular queue is the Hot Potato game. In this game, children are organized in a circle, and they pass the hot potato to their neighbor as fast as they...