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Stacks & Queues: Core Concepts

Stacks and queues restrict how items enter and leave a collection. Stacks support function calls, undo, expression parsing, depth-first search, and backtracking.

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Stacks and queues restrict how items enter and leave a collection.

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A stack changes one logical end of the sequence, while a queue adds at one end and removes from the other.

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Tracing operations shows deterministic ordering: pushing A,B,C then popping yields C,B,A, while enqueueing A,B,C then dequeuing yields A,B,C.