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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

Stacks in a nutshell

A stack is a linear data structure that uses the Last-In-First-Out (LIFO) principle. Think of a stack of plates that needs to be washed. You take the first plate from the top (which was the last one to be added) and you wash it. Afterward, you take the next plate from the top and so on. This is exactly what a real-life stack is (for example, a stack of plates, a stack of books, a stack of CDs, and so on).

So, technically speaking, in a stack, the elements are only added (known as the push operation) and removed (known as the pop operation) to/from one end of it (known as the top).

The most common operations that are performed in a stack are as follows:

  • push(E e): Adds an element to the top of the stack
  • E pop(): Removes the top element from the stack
  • E peek(): Returns (but doesn't remove) the top element from the stack
  • boolean isEmpty(): Returns true if the stack is empty
  • int size(): Returns the size of the stack
  • boolean isFull...
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