This week I find myself learning about how to properly program Queues in C++. I can't help but observe a couple things that you may or may not have noticed.
first - how much of our lives to we spend in a queue? Whether at the market, waiting on a server queue or even the doctors? I've spent a decent chunk of time this morning with my mother walking around in a hospital going literally from queue to queue to queue. This really is what caused the question above to become a point of conversation today.
Just by doing some very simple math we can see how much I might actually be spending my life in a line.
Lets say that we measure this in minutes per day.
So lets say I spend minutes in traffic = 5
Waiting on load times at work = 20
at the market = 5
loading times in games = 10 ( this would include mobile, pc and console)
so per day we see approximately 40 minutes in a queue.
per week that makes it = 210 minutes or 3.5 hours
per month 14 hours
per year that's 1 week in queue.
Now in learning how to program a queue we look at the ability to place data elements in a stack and remove them from a stack. To enqueue and dequeue respectively. It essentially comes down to looking at how to modify a list but that is another way to even take a look at some of the things we have in life.
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