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PROGRAMMING CHALLENGES

Parentheses Balancer

Difficulty:

2 Medium

2.3 Stacks

Topic:

Write a program that checks if a string of parentheses is balanced using a stack. The program should return true if the parentheses are balanced and false otherwise. Implement this in pseudocode or Python.

Push opening parentheses onto the stack and pop for each closing parenthesis. If the stack is empty at the end, the string is balanced.

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