Data Structures
Data Structures
Arrays:
Basics of arrays, indexing, and accessing elements.
Operations like insertion, deletion, and searching.
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Linked Lists:
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Singly linked lists, doubly linked lists, and circular linked lists.
Operations like insertion, deletion, and traversal.
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Stacks:
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LIFO (Last In, First Out) principle.
Operations like push and pop.
Applications in parsing expressions, undo mechanisms, etc.
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Queues:
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FIFO (First In, First Out) principle.
Operations like enqueue and dequeue.
Circular queues and priority queues.
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Trees:
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Binary trees, binary search trees.
Tree traversal algorithms (in-order, pre-order, post-order).
Balanced trees (AVL trees, Red-Black trees).
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Graphs:
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Basics of graphs, vertices, and edges.
Graph representations (adjacency matrix, adjacency list).
Graph traversal algorithms (BFS, DFS).
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Hashing:
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Hash functions and collision resolution.
Hash tables and their implementation.
Algorithms:
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Searching:
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Linear search and binary search.
Hashing-based searching.
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Sorting:
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Bubble sort, insertion sort, selection sort.
Quick sort, merge sort, heap sort.
Radix sort.
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Recursion:
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Understanding recursive algorithms.
Solving problems using recursion.
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Dynamic Programming:
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Memoization and tabulation.
Solving problems with optimal substructure and overlapping subproblems.
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Greedy Algorithms:
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Making locally optimal choices at each stage.
Applications in Huffman coding, Dijkstra's algorithm.
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Graph Algorithms:
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Shortest path algorithms (Dijkstra, Bellman-Ford).
Minimum Spanning Tree (Prim, Kruskal).
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Divide and Conquer:
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Breaking a problem into subproblems and solving them.
Examples include merge sort, quicksort.
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Backtracking:
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Solving problems incrementally and undoing moves when necessary.
Examples include N-Queens problem, Sudoku.
Miscellaneous:
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Bit Manipulation:
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Basic bitwise operations.
Bitwise manipulation for optimization.
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Complexity Analysis:
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Big O notation and time complexity analysis.
Space complexity analysis.
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Amortized Analysis:
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Analyzing the average time taken per operation.
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NP-Completeness:
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Understanding the concept and its implications.