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Challenge Summary

Implement an Animal shelter that takes dog and cat objects, and enqueues and dequeues them on a FIFO principle.

Challenge Description

Create a class called AnimalShelter which holds only dogs and cats. The shelter operates using a first-in, first-out approach. Implement the following methods: enqueue(animal): adds animal to the shelter. animal can be either a dog or a cat object. dequeue(pref): returns either a dog or a cat. If pref is not "dog" or "cat" then return null.

Approach & Efficiency

For queueing, I used an if statement to determine the species of the animal object being added, then directed that object to be added to either a 'dogs' queue, or a 'cats' queue.

For dequeueing, I simply called my dequeue() function on the preferred animal's queue. Both these functions should operate with an O(1) efficiency, as they simply implement Queue objects.

Solution

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