*DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) Essential Topics for Interviews* 1️⃣ Arrays and Strings Basic operations (insert, delete, update) Two-pointer technique Sliding window Prefix sum Kadane’s algorithm Subarray problems 2️⃣ Linked List Singly & Doubly Linked List Reverse a linked list Detect loop (Floyd’s Cycle) Merge two sorted lists Intersection of linked lists 3️⃣ Stack & Queue Stack using array or linked list Queue and Circular Queue Monotonic Stack/Queue LRU Cache (LinkedHashMap/Deque) Infix to Postfix conversion 4️⃣ Hashing HashMap, HashSet Frequency counting Two Sum problem Group Anagrams Longest Consecutive Sequence 5️⃣ Recursion & Backtracking Base cases and recursive calls Subsets, permutations N-Queens problem Sudoku solver Word search 6️⃣ Trees & Binary Trees Traversals (Inorder, Preorder, Postorder) Height and Diameter Balanced Binary Tree Lowest Common Ancestor (LCA) Serialize & Deserialize Tree 7️⃣ Binary Search Trees (BST) Search, Insert, Delete Validate BST Kth smallest/largest element Convert BST to DLL 8️⃣ Heaps & Priority Queues Min Heap / Max Heap Heapify Top K elements Merge K sorted lists Median in a stream 9️⃣ Graphs Representations (adjacency list/matrix) DFS, BFS Cycle detection (directed & undirected) Topological Sort Dijkstra’s & Bellman-Ford algorithm Union-Find (Disjoint Set) 10️⃣ Dynamic Programming (DP) 0/1 Knapsack Longest Common Subsequence Matrix Chain Multiplication DP on subsequences Memoization vs Tabulation 11️⃣ Greedy Algorithms Activity selection Huffman coding Fractional knapsack Job scheduling 12️⃣ Tries Insert and search a word Word search Auto-complete feature 13️⃣ Bit Manipulation XOR, AND, OR basics Check if power of 2 Single Number problem Count set bits Coding Interview Resources: https://t.me/crackingthecodinginterview *ENJOY LEARNING* 👍👍