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C# Data Structures and Algorithms

By : Marcin Jamro
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C# Data Structures and Algorithms

By: Marcin Jamro

Overview of this book

Data structures allow organizing data efficiently. They are critical to various problems and their suitable implementation can provide a complete solution that acts like reusable code. In this book, you will learn how to use various data structures while developing in the C# language as well as how to implement some of the most common algorithms used with such data structures. At the beginning, you will get to know arrays, lists, dictionaries, and sets together with real-world examples of your application. Then, you will learn how to create and use stacks and queues. In the following part of the book, the more complex data structures will be introduced, namely trees and graphs, together with some algorithms for searching the shortest path in a graph. We will also discuss how to organize the code in a manageable, consistent, and extendable way. By the end of the book,you will learn how to build components that are easy to understand, debug, and use in different applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Queues


A queue is a data structure that can be presented using the example of a line of people waiting in a shop at the checkout. New people stand at the end of the line, and the next person is taken to the checkout from the beginning of the line. You are not allowed to choose a person from the middle and serve him or her in a different order.

The queue data structure operates in exactly the same way. You can only add new elements at the end of the queue (the enqueue operation) and remove an element from the queue only from the beginning of the queue (the dequeue operation). For this reason, this data structure is consistent with the FIFO principle, which stands for First-In First-Out. In the example regarding a line of people waiting in a shop at the checkout, people who come first (first-in) will be served before those who come later (first-out).

The operation of a queue is presented in the following diagram:

It is worth mentioning that a queue is a recursive data structure, similarly as...