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Stack, Queue, and Heap Patterns

A practical guide to stack, queue, deque, and heap interview problems, including monotonic stacks, BFS, sliding-window maximum, top-k, and LRU thinking

Why These Structures Matter

These patterns all answer one question:

What should be processed next?
  • stack answers: the most recent unresolved item
  • queue answers: the oldest pending item
  • deque answers: whichever end keeps the structure useful
  • heap answers: the best priority item right now

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