When you run a program in any language, whether it's Java, C, Python or Lisp, the computer automatically creates a stack of all the functions currently running. This is called—wait for it—the c...

Think back to the last time you needed to find something. Maybe it was your keys, phone, favorite sci fi movie with a terrible premise (and probably a terrible execution, too), or that CD you found...

Inserting into and deleting from lists is kind-of integral to the whole "using lists" thing. If you can't put things in or take things out, you've got a useless data structure on your hands.But bef...

If you think inserting and deleting with arrays is easy, just wait till you see what happens in a linked list. Since all the nodes in a linked list are distributed through the computer's memory, yo...

AdditionsIf you need to put clean dishes away in your cupboard, you probably put them at the top of the stack. Try putting them in the middle or the bottom and you risk destroying all your plates.T...

In the real world, a queue isn't always the perfect structure that always lets everyone through in the order they entered. Sometimes you get bored standing around for that roller coaster and decide...

Writing words backwards can be a great way to write in code, but sometimes it just gets plain confusing. Maybe you're trying to tell your friend "Live star pals," is how you'd describe your friends...

Stacks and queues might sound about as different as Hamilton and Burr, and…they are. Stacks are last in, first out (LIFO) structures, and queues are first in, first out (FIFO). Stacks insert and...