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HackerRank Solutions – Queues – A Tale of Two Stacks – Java Solution

All credits to Rodney Shaghoulian for this simple solution for the HackerRank challenge – Queues – A Tale of Two Stacks. This solution is written in Java.

// Author: Rodney Shaghoulian
// Github: github.com/RodneyShag

import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Stack;

public class Solution {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        MyQueue<Integer> queue = new MyQueue<Integer>();

        Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);
        int n = scan.nextInt();

        for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
            int operation = scan.nextInt();
            if (operation == 1) { // enqueue
              queue.enqueue(scan.nextInt());
            } else if (operation == 2) { // dequeue
              queue.dequeue();
            } else if (operation == 3) { // print/peek
              System.out.println(queue.peek());
            }
        }
        scan.close();
    }
    
    public static class MyQueue<Integer> {
        private Stack<Integer> stack1 = new Stack<>();
        private Stack<Integer> stack2 = new Stack<>();
        
        public void enqueue(Integer num) {
            stack1.push(num);
        }
        
        public Integer dequeue() {
            if (size() == 0) {
                return null;
            }
            if (stack2.isEmpty()) {
                shiftStacks();
            }
            return stack2.pop();
        }
        
        public Integer peek() {
            if (size() == 0) {
                return null;
            }
            if (stack2.isEmpty()) {
                shiftStacks();
            }
            return stack2.peek();
        }
        
        /* Only shifts stacks if necessary */
        private void shiftStacks() {
            if (stack2.isEmpty()) { // shifting items while stack2 contains items would mess up our queue's ordering
                while ( ! stack1.isEmpty()) {
                    stack2.push(stack1.pop());
                }
            }
        }
        
        public int size() {
            return stack1.size() + stack2.size();
        }
    }
}
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