CSC300 / CSC402: ADTs in Java [2/9]

In Java we write this as follows (using Strings instead of plates):

package algs13;
public class StackOfStrings {
  public StackOfStrings          { /* ... */ }
  public boolean isEmpty ()      { /* ... */ }
  public void push (String item) { /* ... */ }
  public String pop ()           { /* ... */ }
}

We use the ADT as follows:

  StackOfStrings stack = new StackOfStrings();
  stack.push("a"); 
  if (! stack.isEmpty()) { String item = stack.pop(); }

Note that I've told you what the operations are, and how they should behave.

I've told you nothing about how the operations are implemented.

When we look at a specific implementation, this is what we call a data structure.