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Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Kotlin

You're reading from   Hands-On Data Structures and Algorithms with Kotlin Level up your programming skills by understanding how Kotlin's data structure works

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788994019
Length 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chandra Sekhar Nayak Chandra Sekhar Nayak
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Getting Started with Data Structures FREE CHAPTER
2. A Walk Through - Data Structures and Algorithms 3. Arrays - First Step to Grouping Data 4. Section 2: Efficient Grouping of Data with Various Data Structures
5. Introducing Linked Lists 6. Understanding Stacks and Queues 7. Maps - Working with Key-Value Pairs 8. Section 3: Algorithms and Efficiency
9. Deep-Dive into Searching Algorithms 10. Understanding Sorting Algorithms 11. Section 4: Modern and Advanced Data Structures
12. Collections and Data Operations in Kotlin 13. Introduction to Functional Programming 14. Other Books You May Enjoy 15. Assessments

Operations on a stack

As mentioned earlier, a stack allows you to do an operation only with the last index. So, the operations possible on a stack are as follows:

  • Insertion: This allows you to insert an element at last index (Top) of the stack. This operation is also called a Push operation.
  • Deletion: This allows you to delete the element at last index (Top) of the stack. This operation is also called a Pop operation.

In addition to these primary operations, the stack can also allow a few secondary operations, such as the following:

  • Fetch: Fetches the top of the stack, also called Peek
  • Size: Returns the size of the stack
  • isEmpty: Tells whether the stack is empty or not
  • isFull: Tells whether the stack is full or not

If we closely observe the operations it allows us to do, we'll notice that the element that is being inserted (Push) last is deleted and (Pop) first. On the...

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