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This is my array implementation on stack in Java. It involves push, pop, get and growth when limit of array size is reached.

I am a self-taught programmer starting to learn data structures and algorithms.

I am looking for

1. any recommendation on conventions


2. an honest opinion on how bad this piece of code if this is an interview.


3. anything wrong and room for improvement.

I wrote this code myself, not looking at any other similar questions on Code Review.

public class stackAlist{

    int data;

    int size;

    static int growthmultipler = 1;



    public stackAlist(){

        data = new int[2*growthmultipler];

        size = 0;

    }



    public void push(int value){

        if(this.size == 0){

            this.data[0] = value;

            this.size += 1;

            this.growthmultipler = 1;

            }

        else if(this.size == 2*growthmultipler){

            growthmultipler += 1;

            stackAlist newlist = new stackAlist();

            newlist.data = new int[2*growthmultipler];

            System.arraycopy(this.data, 0, newlist.data, 0, this.size);

            this.data = newlist.data;

            this.data[size] = value;

            this.size += 1;

        }

        else{

        this.data[size] = value;

        this.size += 1;

        }

    }



    public void pop(){

        this.data[size-1] = 0;

        this.size = this.size-1;

    }



    public void get(){

        int i;

        for(i =0; i < this.size; i++){

            System.out.println(data[i]);

        }

    }



    public static void main(String args){

        stackAlist a = new stackAlist();

        a.push(1);

        a.push(2);

        a.get();

        a.pop();

        a.get();

        a.push(3);

        a.push(4);

        a.get();

    }

}

First of all, you are using a static variable (growthmultipler) inside the instance of a class. This is fatal if you have more than one instance of this class. Because you always use 2*growthmultipler, you don't need it. Use +=2 instead.

You don't need to prealloc data in the constructor. It will be done if it's needed.

You don't need to handle "size == 0" separately. You only have to handle "size >= length".

You don't have to create a new class if you want to grow data.

In pop() you should test to not get negative (and throw an exception). And normally a pop function returns the value.

In summary it might look like this:

public class stackAlist{

    int data;

    int size;



    public stackAlist(){

        size = 0;

        data = new int[size];

    }



    public void push(int value){

        if(size>=data.length) {

            int  ndata = new int[data.length+2];

            System.arraycopy(data, 0, ndata, 0, size);

            data = ndata;

        }

        data[size] = value;

        size += 1;

    }



    public int pop() {

        int ret=0;

        if(size>0) {

            size -= 1;

            ret = data[size];

            data[size] = 0;

        }

        return ret;

    }

    .....

A couple things to add:

1. Classes should use CamelCase and should preferably have descriptive names. stackAlist would be better named ArrayStack.


2. You might want to have a Stack interface that ArrayStack implements.


3. You might want to extract the resizing code into a separate method, and optionally make it public and/or take parameters.


4. In your pop method, there's no need to zero out the popped items.