Nailing down the technique to solve algorithm questions

Questions

Graphs and Trees are popular

• Depth First Search
  • use queue
  • searching
  • binary searching
• Breadth First Search
  • print using stack
  • Level based
• Matching Bracket Problem
  • Using a stack
  • recursion
• Making use of Hash Tables
  • traverse matrix and keep track of what you have already visited
  • Dynamic Programming
  • Memonization
• How to manupulatemultiple vairiable pointers at once
  • Longest palindrome substring
    • 2 pointers expanding outwards
• Reverse a linked List

Topics

• Binary trees, BST and Binary Search
• Recursion and Iteration
• Linked lists
• Strings and manipulation
• Dynamic programming
• Heaps, Trees, and the "Trie" data structures
• Graphs (breadth-first search and depth-first search)
• Sorting algorithms
• Hashmaps and sets
• Stacks and queues

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