A PriorityQueue is a list that always keeps its items sorted based on some rule, like smallest to largest. So, when you take an item out, you always get the one with the highest (or lowest) priority.

Covers algorithms and their performance analysis, data structures, abstraction, and encapsulation. Introduces stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, heaps, priority queues, and hash tables, and their ...

Topics include: data and procedural abstraction, amortized data structures, trees and search trees, hash tables, priority queues, graphs, shortest paths, searching, and sorting. Required for computer ...