This lesson teaches students how priority-based data processing works, showing how elements are stored, ordered, and removed based on priority rather than insertion order. Learners understand why priority queues are essential in real systems and how they are implemented using linked lists and heaps, including a full C++ template-based implementation. ────────── ⋆⋅☆⋅⋆ ────────── 🧠 What Students Will Actually Master ✨✨ ✏️ What a Priority Queue is and why it’s used ✏️ Difference between a