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Introduction to Stacks and Queues (Data Structures & Algorithms #12)

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Here's my introduction to stacks, queues, and deques (double-ended queues)! You can check out the problem I mentioned at the end of the video here: https://www.algoexpert.io/csdojo (it's a referral link) And you should join our community here if you haven't yet: https://www.csdojo.io/community

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First of all, what's a stack? Well, personally, I like to think of a stack like a bunch of pancakes.", 'start': 10.161, 'duration': 8.469}, {'end': 25.578, 'text': 'So just imagine for a second that these circles represent pancakes with different numbers written on them.', 'start': 19.571, 'duration': 6.007}, {'end': 31.865, 'text': "We could have any type of data here, but we're using numbers or integers as an example here.", 'start': 26.439, 'duration': 5.426}], 'summary': 'Introduction to stacks, queues, and double-ended queues with a pancake analogy.', 'duration': 31.616, 'max_score': 0.249, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/A3ZUpyrnCbM/pics/A3ZUpyrnCbM249.jpg'}, {'end': 118.112, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 84.341, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 86.682, 'text': 'and then finally you can take out this one.', 'start': 84.341, 'duration': 2.341}, {'end': 91.613, 'text': "So that's how pancakes in the real world work.", 'start': 88.029, 'duration': 3.584}, {'end': 95.458, 'text': "And it's the same thing with the stack data structure.", 'start': 92.474, 'duration': 2.984}, {'end': 104.55, 'text': 'So a stack is a collection of data in which you can only add a piece of data at the top of this structure.', 'start': 96.419, 'duration': 8.131}, {'end': 109.424, 'text': 'or retrieve a piece of data from the top of this structure.', 'start': 105.561, 'duration': 3.863}, {'end': 118.112, 'text': "So you aren't really able to retrieve data from any position, just like you could, for example, in an array.", 'start': 110.425, 'duration': 7.687}], 'summary': 'Stack data structure: add/retrieve data from top, unlike array.', 'duration': 33.771, 'max_score': 84.341, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/A3ZUpyrnCbM/pics/A3ZUpyrnCbM84341.jpg'}, {'end': 172.048, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 141.817, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 145.4, 'text': "And that's sometimes referred to as last in, first out.", 'start': 141.817, 'duration': 3.583}, {'end': 154.907, 'text': "Okay, so that's how a stack works, but how can we implement it? Well, one way to implement it is by using an array.", 'start': 146.101, 'duration': 8.806}, {'end': 162.805, 'text': "So we have an array of eight elements here, and we're gonna try to represent this stack right here.", 'start': 155.982, 'duration': 6.823}, {'end': 172.048, 'text': "To do that, the first thing we'll need to do is we'll need to have a pointer or just an integer variable.", 'start': 163.585, 'duration': 8.463}], 'summary': 'Explaining stack data structure using array implementation.', 'duration': 30.231, 'max_score': 141.817, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/A3ZUpyrnCbM/pics/A3ZUpyrnCbM141817.jpg'}, {'end': 260.791, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 226.545, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 232.848, 'text': 'Then we can move the pointer again, again pointing to the last element that we put in, and then put three here.', 'start': 226.545, 'duration': 6.303}, {'end': 234.701, 'text': 'And then we can keep doing that.', 'start': 233.581, 'duration': 1.12}, {'end': 245.825, 'text': 'If we want to put 9 here, you can move the pointer here or increment pointer by 1 and then put 9 here.', 'start': 235.702, 'duration': 10.123}, {'end': 249.746, 'text': 'And what if you want to remove this number right here?', 'start': 246.865, 'duration': 2.881}, {'end': 260.791, 'text': '9?. 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To explain that, I think the best way to do that would be to give you a bunch of examples.', 'start': 929.242, 'duration': 7.626}, {'end': 944.223, 'text': 'This one is balanced because there are scar brackets inside and regular brackets outside.', 'start': 938.479, 'duration': 5.744}, {'end': 947.286, 'text': 'This is not balanced, obviously.', 'start': 944.243, 'duration': 3.043}, {'end': 952.53, 'text': "This is not balanced either because you're trying to close before you open.", 'start': 947.306, 'duration': 5.224}, {'end': 955.092, 'text': 'This one is not balanced.', 'start': 953.831, 'duration': 1.261}, {'end': 961.998, 'text': 'And this one is not balanced either because these two types of brackets are overlapping.', 'start': 956.554, 'duration': 5.444}, {'end': 970.585, 'text': 'Anyway, you should be able to solve this problem in O where n is the length of the string and O as well.', 'start': 962.399, 'duration': 8.186}, {'end': 973.708, 'text': 'Anyway, sorry about the delay 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