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DSA Mastery Roadmap

The DSA Mastery Roadmap outlines a structured 16-week plan for mastering data structures and algorithms, divided into ten phases covering topics from basics to advanced concepts. Each phase includes specific problems to solve, key notes for understanding, and coding implementations to practice. The final phase emphasizes revision and real-world applications through various coding platforms and projects.

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DSA Mastery Roadmap

The DSA Mastery Roadmap outlines a structured 16-week plan for mastering data structures and algorithms, divided into ten phases covering topics from basics to advanced concepts. Each phase includes specific problems to solve, key notes for understanding, and coding implementations to practice. The final phase emphasizes revision and real-world applications through various coding platforms and projects.

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DSA Mastery Roadmap

Phase 1: Basics & Foundation (Week 1-2)

- Learn: Time/Space complexity, arrays, strings

- Problems: Two Sum, Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock, Valid Palindrome, Merge Sorted Array

- Notes: Sliding window, two pointers

- Code: Implement Linear Search, Binary Search, Bubble Sort, Quick Sort, Merge Sort

Phase 2: Recursion & Backtracking (Week 3)

- Problems: Subsets, Permutations, N-Queens, Sudoku Solver

- Notes: Backtracking vs brute-force

- Code: Recursive calls with base/recursive case, pruning with backtracking

Phase 3: Linked Lists (Week 4)

- Problems: Reverse Linked List, Detect Cycle, Merge Two Sorted Lists, LRU Cache

- Notes: Pointers, dummy nodes

- Code: Define ListNode class and common methods

Phase 4: Stacks & Queues (Week 5)

- Problems: Valid Parentheses, Daily Temperatures, Min Stack, Sliding Window Maximum

- Notes: Use deque for efficient operations

- Code: Implement custom stack/queue using lists

Phase 5: Trees & BSTs (Week 6)


DSA Mastery Roadmap

- Problems: Invert Binary Tree, Diameter of Binary Tree, Lowest Common Ancestor, Serialize and Deserialize

Binary Tree

- Notes: Recursion + stack for DFS; queue for BFS

- Code: TreeNode class + recursive traversal functions

Phase 6: Heaps & Priority Queues (Week 7)

- Problems: Kth Largest Element, Merge K Sorted Lists, Top K Frequent Elements

- Notes: Use Python heapq (min-heap by default)

- Code: Wrap negative numbers for max-heap

Phase 7: Graphs (Week 8-9)

- Problems: Number of Islands, Course Schedule, Graph Valid Tree, Minimum Spanning Tree

(Prim's/Kruskal)

- Notes: Adjacency list/matrix, visited set

- Code: Graph traversal with recursion & queue

Phase 8: Dynamic Programming (Week 10-12)

- Problems: House Robber, Longest Palindromic Substring, Longest Increasing Subsequence, Edit Distance

- Notes: Identify overlapping subproblems

- Code: Use memo dictionaries and 2D lists

Phase 9: Advanced Topics (Week 13-15)

- Problems: Implement Trie, Count Bits, XOR Queries, Range Sum using Segment Tree
DSA Mastery Roadmap

- Topics: Tries, Segment Trees, Bit Manipulation

Phase 10: Revision & Real-World Practice (Week 16)

- Platforms: LeetCode, HackerRank, Codeforces, InterviewBit

- Real-world projects: Autocomplete, Calendar System, Recommendation Engine

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