Welcome to the practical segment of our Kotlin programming journey! Today, we'll apply the knowledge from past lessons to solve two practice problems using advanced Kotlin data structures: queues, deques, and sorted maps with custom class keys.
Consider an event-driven system, like a restaurant. Orders arrive, and they must be handled in the order they were received, following the First In, First Out (FIFO) principle. This principle makes it a perfect scenario for a queue
or deque
implementation in Kotlin.
This code demonstrates the creation and operation of a Queue
class, which leverages ArrayDeque
to efficiently implement a queue. The Queue
class includes methods to (add) an item, (remove) an item, check if the queue is empty, and return the queue's size. Enqueue operations add an item to the end of the deque (simulating the arrival of a new order), while dequeue operations remove an item from the front (simulating the serving of an order), maintaining the principle.
