PriorityQueue

Problem Statement Question: A long array A[] is given to you. There is a sliding window of size w, which is moving from the very left of the array to the very right. You can only see the w numbers in the window. Each time the sliding window moves rightwards by one position. Example: The array is [1 3 -1 -3 5 3 6 7], and w is 3. Window position Max \--------------- ----- $1 3 -1$ -3 5 3 6 7 3 1 $3 -1 -3$ 5 3 6 7 3 1 3 $-1 -3 5$ 3 6 7 5 1 3 -1 $-3 5 3$ 6 7 5 1 3 -1 -3 $5 3 6$ 7 6 1 3 -1 -3 5 $3 6 7$ 7 Input: A long array A[], and a window width w [Read More]

What is priority queue? A data structure for maintaining items or elements in a queue of priorities, which is usually implemented using an array. A queue of this nature helps to insert every item with an assigned priority and these inserted items could be deleted if required. Minimum number of queues needed to implement the priority queue? Two. One queue is used for actual storing of data and another for storing priorities. [Read More]