Topic Description
Introduction to Python’s syntax and basic language
Basic Syntax
features for implementing DSA concepts effectively.
Overview of Python’s built-in data types such as lists,
Data Types tuples, dictionaries, sets, and strings, essential for
implementing various data structures.
Mastery of control flow statements like if-else, loops
Control Flow
(for and while), and exception handling.
Functions and Understanding how to define and use functions, and
Modules import and use modules to organize code.
OOP (Object- Introduction to OOP concepts such as encapsulation,
Oriented abstraction, inheritance, and polymorphism for
Programming) efficient code structure.
Techniques for robust exception handling to
Exception
gracefully manage unexpected errors and ensure
Handling
program reliability.
Understanding recursion concepts and implementing
Recursion
recursive algorithms.
Learning to analyze the time and space complexity of
Complexity
algorithms using Big O notation, and understanding
Analysis
its implications in Python.
Studying and implementing sorting algorithms (e.g.,
Sorting and bubble sort, merge sort, quicksort) and searching
Searching algorithms (e.g., linear search, binary search) in
Python.
Learning about linked list data structures, including
Linked Lists singly and doubly linked lists, and their
implementation in Python.
Stacks and
Queues
Topic Description
Understanding stacks and queues, and implementing
them using Python’s list or deque from the collections
module.
Exploring tree and graph data structures (e.g., binary
Trees and
trees, graphs) and implementing related algorithms
Graphs
(e.g., traversal, shortest path) in Python.
Learning dynamic programming concepts and
Dynamic
implementing solutions for optimization problems in
Programming
Python.
Understanding the concept of hashing and
Hashing implementing hash tables and hash-based algorithms
in Python.