Stack: Elements can be inserted and deleted only from one side of the list, called the top . The insertion of an element is called push operation and the deletion of an element is called pop operation.
Queue: Elements can be inserted only from one side of the list called Rear , and the elements can be deleted only from the other side called the Front . It’s the insertion of an element in a queue is called an Enqueue operation and the deletion of an element is called a Dequeue operation.
  • There are several types of queues such as : Simple Queue, Circular Queue, Priority Queue and Double Ended Queue
  • We can implement a stack and queue using both array and linked list.
  • Stack Applications: During Function Calls and Recursive Algorithms, Expression Evaluation, Undo feature in computer keyboard, Converting an Infix to Postfix, During Depth First Search (DFS) and Backtracking Algorithms etc.
  • Queues Applications: Simulation, Scheduling, Shared Resource Management, Keyboard Buffer, Breadth-First Search, To handle congestion in the network etc.