SHARE
SPREAD
HELP

The Tradition of Sharing

Help your friends and juniors by posting answers to the questions that you know. Also post questions that are not available.


To start with, Sr2Jr’s first step is to reduce the expenses related to education. To achieve this goal Sr2Jr organized the textbook’s question and answers. Sr2Jr is community based and need your support to fill the question and answers. The question and answers posted will be available free of cost to all.

 

#
Authors:
Walter Savitch ,kenrick Mock
Chapter:
Linked Data Structures
Exercise:
Programming Projects
Question:6 | ISBN:9780132846813 | Edition: 5

Question

Modify the Queue Template class given in Section 17.2 so that it implements a priority queue. A priority queue is similar to a regular queue except that each item added to the queue also has an associated priority. For this problem, make the priority an integer where 0 is the highest priority and larger values are increasingly lower in priority.

The remove function should return and remove the item that has the highest priority. For example,

q.add('X', 10);

q.add('Y', 1);

q.add('Z', 3);

cout << q.remove( ); //Returns Y

cout << q.remove( ); //Returns Z

cout << q.remove( ); //Returns X

Test your queue on data with priorities in various orders (e.g., ascending, descending, mixed). You can implement the priority queue by performing a linear search in the remove( ) function. In future courses, you may study a data structure called a heap that affords a more efficient way to implement a priority queue.


TextbookTextbookTextbookTextbookTextbookTextbookTextbookTextbookTextbookTextbookTextbookTextbookTextbookTextbookTextbookTextbookTextbook

Sorry the answer is not available at the moment…

If you are able to find the answer, please make sure to post it here. So that your Juniors have smile on their lips and feel happy.

Spread the 'tradition of sharing'.