Comprehensive DSA Roadmap for Campus

Internship & Placement Preparation

Week 1: Fundamentals & Arrays
Day 1: Understanding Time & Space Complexity
Focus Areas:

Learn Big-O, Big-Ω, Big-Θ notations

Understand how to analyze algorithms
Practice analyzing simple loops and nested loops

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Time Complexity Analysis - Analyze simple for loops

2. Easy: What's the Time Complexity? - Basic algorithm analysis
3. Medium: Analyzing Recursive Algorithms - Understanding recursion complexity
4. Medium: Master Theorem Applications - Solving recurrence relations
5. Hard: Amortized Analysis - Advanced complexity analysis

Day 2: Space Complexity & Algorithm Analysis

Focus Areas:

Memory usage analysis

Auxiliary space vs. input space
Practical examples of space-efficient algorithms

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Space Complexity Quiz - Basic space analysis

2. Easy: Array Manipulation Space Analysis - In-place operations
3. Medium: Recursive Function Space - Stack space in recursion
4. Medium: Hash Map vs. Array - Space tradeoffs
5. Hard: Space Optimization Techniques - Converting O(n) to O(1) space

Day 3: Introduction to Basic Algorithms

Focus Areas:

Common algorithm patterns

 Comparing algorithm efficiencies
When to use which approach

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Linear Search vs Binary Search - Algorithm comparison

2. Easy: Brute Force vs Optimized - Different approaches
3. Medium: Algorithm Selection Challenge - Choose efficient algorithm
4. Medium: Multiple Algorithm Solutions - Compare approaches
5. Hard: Efficiency Optimization - Improving algorithms

Day 4: 1D Arrays Fundamentals

Focus Areas:

Basic array operations

In-place algorithms
Array traversal techniques

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Array Reversal - Basic manipulation

2. Easy: Remove Element - In-place operations
3. Medium: Product Except Self - Array manipulation
4. Medium: Rotate Array - In-place rotation
5. Hard: First Missing Positive - Advanced array manipulation

Day 5: 2D Arrays
Focus Areas:

Matrix traversal patterns (row, column, diagonal)

Matrix operations
Simulating 2D arrays with 1D arrays

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Matrix Diagonal Sum - Basic traversal

2. Easy: Transpose Matrix - Matrix operations
3. Medium: Spiral Matrix - Complex traversal
4. Medium: Set Matrix Zeroes - Matrix manipulation
5. Hard: Word Search - Advanced matrix traversal

Day 6: Sliding Window Technique

Focus Areas:

Fixed-size window applications

Variable-size window applications
Window optimization techniques

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Max Average Subarray I - Fixed window

2. Easy: Contains Duplicate II - Simple sliding window
3. Medium: Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters - Variable window
4. Medium: Minimum Size Subarray Sum - Sliding window optimization
5. Hard: Minimum Window Substring - Complex window problem

Day 7: Prefix Sum & Kadane's Algorithm

Focus Areas:

Building prefix arrays

Range sum queries
Maximum subarray problems

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Range Sum Query - Immutable - Basic prefix sum

2. Easy: Maximum Subarray - Kadane's Algorithm implementation
3. Medium: Subarray Sum Equals K - Prefix sum application
4. Medium: Maximum Size Subarray Sum Equals k - Advanced prefix sum
5. Hard: Maximum Sum Circular Subarray - Kadane's extension

Week 2: Arrays, Sorting & Searching

Day 8: Two Pointer Technique
Focus Areas:

Two pointer patterns

Applications for array problems
Space optimization using pointers

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Two Sum Sorted Array - Basic two pointers

2. Easy: Remove Duplicates from Sorted Array - In-place operation
3. Medium: 3Sum - Multiple pointers
 4. Medium: Container With Most Water - Two pointer optimization
5. Hard: Trapping Rain Water - Advanced two pointers

Day 9: Bubble & Selection Sort

Focus Areas:

Bubble sort implementation and optimization

Selection sort implementation
Comparing elementary sorting algorithms

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Implement Bubble Sort - Basic implementation

2. Easy: Implement Selection Sort - Basic implementation
3. Medium: Sort Colors - Dutch National Flag problem
4. Medium: Relative Sort Array - Custom sorting
5. Hard: Sort an Array (Implement from Scratch) - Implement multiple sorts

Day 10: Insertion & Merge Sort

Focus Areas:

Insertion sort implementation and use cases

Merge sort implementation and analysis
Divide and conquer paradigm

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Implement Insertion Sort - Basic implementation

2. Easy: Implement Merge Sort - Basic implementation
3. Medium: Sort List - Merge sort with linked lists
4. Medium: Count Inversions - Application of merge sort
5. Hard: Count of Smaller Numbers After Self - Advanced application

Day 11: Quick Sort & Counting Sort

Focus Areas:

Quick sort implementation and optimization

Partition strategies
Counting sort for integer arrays

Practice Problems:
 1. Easy: Implement Quick Sort - Basic implementation
2. Easy: Sort Array By Parity - Partition application
3. Medium: Kth Largest Element in an Array - Quickselect
4. Medium: Top K Frequent Elements - Counting + sorting
5. Hard: Maximum Gap - Linear time sorting

Day 12: Binary Search Fundamentals

Focus Areas:

Binary search on sorted arrays

Finding exact matches
Template approach to binary search

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Binary Search - Basic implementation

2. Easy: First Bad Version - Simple application
3. Medium: Search in Rotated Sorted Array - Modified binary search
4. Medium: Find First and Last Position - Range finding
5. Hard: Median of Two Sorted Arrays - Advanced binary search

Day 13: Binary Search Applications

Focus Areas:

Binary search on answer

Binary search on unsorted arrays
Lower/upper bounds

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Guess Number Higher or Lower - Interactive binary search

2. Easy: Valid Perfect Square - Binary search on answer
3. Medium: Find Peak Element - Binary search on unsorted array
4. Medium: Capacity To Ship Packages Within D Days - Binary search on answer
5. Hard: Split Array Largest Sum - Advanced binary search

Day 14: Advanced Search Applications

Focus Areas:

Finding kth largest/smallest element

Merge intervals
Multi-dimensional search
Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Intersection of Two Arrays - Search application

2. Easy: Valid Triangle Number - Binary search approach
3. Medium: Merge Intervals - Interval handling
4. Medium: Kth Smallest Element in a Sorted Matrix - 2D search
5. Hard: Swim in Rising Water - Binary search on 2D grid

Week 3: Strings & Linked Lists

Day 15: String Basics
Focus Areas:

String representation and operations

Character manipulation
String builder/buffer concepts

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Reverse String - Basic operations

2. Easy: Valid Palindrome - Character checking
3. Medium: Longest Palindromic Substring - String manipulation
4. Medium: String Compression - In-place operations
5. Hard: Distinct Subsequences - Advanced string matching

Day 16: String Hashing & Matching

Focus Areas:

Hash functions for strings

Rabin-Karp algorithm
String matching techniques

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Implement strStr() - String matching

2. Easy: Jewels and Stones - Hash set application
3. Medium: Group Anagrams - String hashing
4. Medium: Repeated DNA Sequences - Rolling hash
5. Hard: Longest Duplicate Substring - Advanced hashing

Day 17: Sliding Window for Strings

Focus Areas:
 Fixed and variable length windows
Character frequency maps
Optimization techniques

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Find All Anagrams in a String - Fixed window

2. Easy: Longest Common Prefix - String comparison
3. Medium: Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters - Variable window
4. Medium: Permutation in String - Fixed window with frequencies
5. Hard: Minimum Window Substring - Complex window problem

Day 18: Two Pointers for Strings

Focus Areas:

String traversal with pointers

Palindrome problems
Efficient string comparison

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Valid Palindrome II - Almost palindrome

2. Easy: Backspace String Compare - Two pointer approach
3. Medium: Palindromic Substrings - Expanding around center
4. Medium: 3Sum - Multi-pointer approach
5. Hard: Interleaving String - Two pointer DP approach

Day 19: Singly Linked Lists

Focus Areas:

Linked list implementation

Basic operations (insert, delete)
Traversal patterns

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Reverse Linked List - Basic operation

2. Easy: Middle of the Linked List - Fast/slow pointers
3. Medium: Remove Nth Node From End - Two-pass approach
4. Medium: Linked List Cycle II - Cycle detection
5. Hard: Merge k Sorted Lists - Divide and conquer

Day 20: Doubly & Circular Linked Lists

Focus Areas:

Doubly linked list implementation

Circular linked list operations
Applications and advantages

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Design Linked List - Implementation

2. Easy: Palindrome Linked List - Fast/slow approach
3. Medium: LRU Cache - Doubly linked list application
4. Medium: Flatten a Multilevel Doubly Linked List - Complex list operations
5. Hard: All O`one Data Structure - Doubly linked list design

Day 21: Advanced Linked List Operations

Focus Areas:

Detecting and removing cycles

Merging and sorting linked lists
In-place reversals

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Remove Duplicates from Sorted List - Basic operation

2. Easy: Intersection of Two Linked Lists - Finding common node
3. Medium: Sort List - Merge sort on linked list
4. Medium: Rotate List - Rotation operation
5. Hard: Reverse Nodes in k-Group - Complex reversal

Week 4: Recursion & Backtracking

Day 22: Recursion Basics
Focus Areas:

Understanding recursion stack

Base cases and recursive cases
Tail recursion optimization

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Fibonacci Number - Basic recursion

2. Easy: Power of Three - Simple recursive check
3. Medium: Pow(x, n) - Efficient recursive approach
 4. Medium: Unique Binary Search Trees II - Recursive generation
5. Hard: K-th Symbol in Grammar - Complex recursion

Day 23: Divide and Conquer

Focus Areas:

Divide and conquer paradigm

Recursive problem decomposition
Combining solutions

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Search in a Binary Search Tree - Binary search via recursion

2. Easy: Maximum Depth of Binary Tree - Tree recursion
3. Medium: Different Ways to Add Parentheses - Recursive expression evaluation
4. Medium: Sort an Array - Implement merge sort
5. Hard: Median of Two Sorted Arrays - Divide and conquer approach

Day 24: Backtracking Introduction

Focus Areas:

Backtracking paradigm
State space tree exploration
Decision making and undoing

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Letter Case Permutation - Simple backtracking

2. Easy: Binary Watch - Combination problem
3. Medium: Subsets - Generate all subsets
4. Medium: Permutations - Generate all permutations
5. Hard: N-Queens - Classic backtracking problem

Day 25: Backtracking Applications

Focus Areas:

Constraints and pruning

Sudoku-like problems
Combinatorial problems

Practice Problems:
 1. Easy: Sum of All Subset XOR Totals - Subsets with operation
2. Easy: Binary Tree Paths - Path enumeration
3. Medium: Combination Sum - Sum combinations
4. Medium: Word Search - Grid search with backtracking
5. Hard: Sudoku Solver - Constraint satisfaction

Day 26: Classic Recursion Problems

Focus Areas:

Tower of Hanoi
Generating balanced parentheses
Path finding problems

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Climbing Stairs - Combinatorial counting

2. Easy: Implement Tower of Hanoi - Classic recursion
3. Medium: Generate Parentheses - Valid combinations
4. Medium: Path Sum II - Tree path finding
5. Hard: Word Ladder II - Path finding with backtracking

Day 27: Maze & Grid Problems

Focus Areas:

Grid traversal algorithms

Finding all paths
Optimization in grid search

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Flood Fill - Simple grid traversal

2. Easy: Island Perimeter - Grid counting
3. Medium: Unique Paths - Path counting
4. Medium: Rat in a Maze - Classic maze problem
5. Hard: Word Search II - Advanced grid search

Day 28: Advanced Backtracking

Focus Areas:

Optimizing backtracking algorithms

Pruning techniques
Memoization with backtracking
Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Path Sum - Simple path check

2. Easy: Find Mode in Binary Search Tree - Tree traversal
3. Medium: Palindrome Partitioning - String partitioning
4. Medium: Letter Combinations of a Phone Number - Combination problem
5. Hard: Remove Invalid Parentheses - Optimized backtracking

Week 5: Stacks, Queues & Trees

Day 29: Stack Basics
Focus Areas:

Stack implementation
Push, pop, peek operations
Stack applications

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Valid Parentheses - Classic stack problem

2. Easy: Implement Stack using Queue - Data structure implementation
3. Medium: Daily Temperatures - Monotonic stack
4. Medium: Evaluate Reverse Polish Notation - Postfix evaluation
5. Hard: Largest Rectangle in Histogram - Complex stack application

Day 30: Stack Applications

Focus Areas:

Balanced expressions
Next/previous greater/smaller element
Stack in algorithm design

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Backspace String Compare - Stack simulation

2. Easy: Remove All Adjacent Duplicates - String stack
3. Medium: Next Greater Element II - Circular array stack
4. Medium: Remove K Digits - Monotonic stack
5. Hard: Basic Calculator - Expression evaluation

Day 31: Queue Basics

Focus Areas:
 Queue implementation
Enqueue, dequeue operations
Linear and circular queues

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Implement Queue using Stacks - Data structure implementation

2. Easy: Number of Recent Calls - Simple queue application
3. Medium: Design Circular Queue - Circular implementation
4. Medium: Perfect Squares - BFS with queue
5. Hard: Sliding Window Maximum - Deque application

Day 32: Queue Applications & Deque

Focus Areas:

Level order traversals

BFS algorithm implementation
Double-ended queue operations

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Moving Average from Data Stream - Queue for sliding window
2. Easy: Implement Stack using Queues - Queue application
3. Medium: Design Front Middle Back Queue - Complex queue operations
4. Medium: Shortest Path in Binary Matrix - BFS with queue
5. Hard: Sliding Window Maximum - Deque optimization

Day 33: Binary Tree Basics

Focus Areas:

Binary tree implementation

Tree traversals (inorder, preorder, postorder)
Binary tree properties

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Binary Tree Inorder Traversal - Basic traversal

2. Easy: Same Tree - Tree comparison
3. Medium: Binary Tree Zigzag Level Order Traversal - Modified traversal
4. Medium: Construct Binary Tree from Preorder and Inorder - Tree construction
5. Hard: Binary Tree Maximum Path Sum - Tree DP

Day 34: Binary Search Trees

Focus Areas:

BST properties and implementation

Search, insert, delete operations
BST validation

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Search in a Binary Search Tree - Basic operation

2. Easy: Minimum Absolute Difference in BST - Inorder property
3. Medium: Validate Binary Search Tree - BST checking
4. Medium: Kth Smallest Element in a BST - Inorder traversal
5. Hard: Recover Binary Search Tree - BST correction

Day 35: Tree Traversal Techniques

Focus Areas:

Recursive vs. iterative traversal

Level order traversal
Morris traversal

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Maximum Depth of Binary Tree - Tree property

2. Easy: Binary Tree Level Order Traversal - BFS approach
3. Medium: Binary Tree Preorder Traversal (Iterative) - Stack-based traversal
4. Medium: Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree - Tree traversal application
5. Hard: Binary Tree Cameras - Advanced tree traversal

Week 6: Advanced Trees & Early Graph Concepts

Day 36: Tree Problems
Focus Areas:

Diameter of binary tree

Path sum problems
Tree balancing

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Diameter of Binary Tree - Tree measurement

2. Easy: Symmetric Tree - Tree structure checking
3. Medium: Path Sum III - Multiple paths
 4. Medium: Count Good Nodes in Binary Tree - Path property checking
5. Hard: Serialize and Deserialize Binary Tree - Tree encoding

Day 37: Balanced BST & AVL Concepts

Focus Areas:

Balanced tree properties

Self-balancing techniques
AVL tree rotations

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Balanced Binary Tree - Height-balanced check

2. Easy: Convert Sorted Array to Binary Search Tree - Balanced construction
3. Medium: Balance a Binary Search Tree - Tree balancing
4. Medium: Implement AVL Tree - AVL implementation
5. Hard: Count of Range Sum - BST application

Day 38: Binary Tree Serialization

Focus Areas:

Tree encoding/decoding
Level order serialization
Preorder serialization

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Construct String from Binary Tree - Simple serialization

2. Easy: Find Mode in Binary Search Tree - Tree traversal
3. Medium: Find Duplicate Subtrees - Subtree serialization
4. Medium: Construct Binary Tree from String - String to tree
5. Hard: Serialize and Deserialize Binary Tree - Complete implementation

Day 39: Advanced Tree Traversals

Focus Areas:

Zigzag traversal
Boundary traversal
Vertical order traversal

Practice Problems:
 1. Easy: Average of Levels in Binary Tree - Level traversal
2. Easy: Minimum Distance Between BST Nodes - Inorder traversal
3. Medium: Binary Tree Zigzag Level Order Traversal - Modified BFS
4. Medium: Vertical Order Traversal of a Binary Tree - Complex traversal
5. Hard: Binary Tree Cameras - Postorder application

Day 40: Binary Heap

Focus Areas:

Min/max heap implementation

Heap operations
Priority queue applications

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Last Stone Weight - Heap application

2. Easy: Kth Largest Element in a Stream - Min heap
3. Medium: Kth Largest Element in an Array - Heap solution
4. Medium: Ugly Number II - Multi-source heap
5. Hard: Find Median from Data Stream - Two heaps

Day 41: Segment & Fenwick Trees

Focus Areas:

Range query data structures

Segment tree implementation
Fenwick tree (Binary Indexed Tree)

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Range Sum Query - Immutable - Prefix sum approach

2. Easy: Implement Segment Tree - Basic implementation
3. Medium: Range Sum Query - Mutable - Segment/Fenwick tree
4. Medium: Count of Range Sum - Segment tree application
5. Hard: Count of Smaller Numbers After Self - Fenwick tree

Day 42: Introduction to Graphs

Focus Areas:

Graph representations (adjacency list, matrix)

Graph properties
Basic traversal concepts
Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Find the Town Judge - Degree counting

2. Easy: Find Center of Star Graph - Simple graph
3. Medium: Graph Valid Tree - Tree properties in graph
4. Medium: Redundant Connection - Cycle detection
5. Hard: Critical Connections in a Network - Bridge finding

Week 7: Graphs & Advanced Trees

Day 43: Graph Traversal: DFS
Focus Areas:

Depth-first search implementation

DFS applications
Cycle detection

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Find if Path Exists in Graph - Simple DFS

2. Easy: Flood Fill - Grid DFS
3. Medium: All Paths From Source to Target - Path finding
4. Medium: Number of Islands - Connected components
5. Hard: Longest Increasing Path in a Matrix - Matrix DFS

Day 44: Graph Traversal: BFS

Focus Areas:

Breadth-first search implementation

Level-order traversals
Shortest paths in unweighted graphs

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Same Tree - Tree BFS

2. Easy: Minimum Depth of Binary Tree - Tree BFS
3. Medium: Shortest Path in Binary Matrix - Grid BFS
4. Medium: Rotting Oranges - Multi-source BFS
5. Hard: Word Ladder - Graph construction and BFS

Day 45: Shortest Path Algorithms

Focus Areas:
 Dijkstra's algorithm
Bellman-Ford algorithm
Floyd-Warshall algorithm

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Find the City With the Smallest Number of Neighbors - Floyd-Warshall
2. Easy: Path With Minimum Effort - Dijkstra
3. Medium: Network Delay Time - Dijkstra/Bellman-Ford
4. Medium: Cheapest Flights Within K Stops - Modified Bellman-Ford
5. Hard: Path With Maximum Minimum Value - Dijkstra variant

Day 46: Minimum Spanning Tree

Focus Areas:

Prim's algorithm
Kruskal's algorithm
Union-Find data structure

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Connecting Cities With Minimum Cost - MST application

2. Easy: Implement Union-Find - Disjoint Set implementation
3. Medium: Min Cost to Connect All Points - Kruskal's algorithm
4. Medium: Redundant Connection - Union-Find application
5. Hard: Optimize Water Distribution in a Village - Modified MST

Day 47: Advanced Graph Problems

Focus Areas:

Topological sort
Strongly connected components
Bipartite graphs

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Is Graph Bipartite? - Graph coloring

2. Easy: Find Eventual Safe States - Cycle detection
3. Medium: Course Schedule - Topological sort
4. Medium: Reconstruct Itinerary - Eulerian path
5. Hard: Alien Dictionary - Topological sort application

Day 48: Trie Basics

Focus Areas:

Trie data structure implementation

Insert, search, delete operations
Prefix matching

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Implement Trie (Prefix Tree) - Basic implementation

2. Easy: Maximum XOR of Two Numbers in an Array - Bit trie
3. Medium: Design Add and Search Words Data Structure - Trie with wildcards
4. Medium: Replace Words - Dictionary replacement
5. Hard: Word Search II - Trie with backtracking

Day 49: Trie Applications

Focus Areas:

Autocomplete systems
Spell checkers
Word search optimizations

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Longest Word in Dictionary - Trie traversal

2. Easy: Map Sum Pairs - Trie with values
3. Medium: Word Search II - Grid search with trie
4. Medium: Design Search Autocomplete System - Real-world application
5. Hard: Stream of Characters - Suffix trie

Week 8: Greedy, Dynamic Programming & Bit

Manipulation
Day 50: Greedy Algorithm Basics
Focus Areas:

Greedy approach principles

When to use greedy algorithms
Proving greedy correctness

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Assign Cookies - Simple greedy

2. Easy: Lemonade Change - Coin change greedy
 3. Medium: Jump Game - Reachability problem
4. Medium: Gas Station - Circular tour
5. Hard: Candy - Multi-pass greedy

Day 51: Greedy Applications

Focus Areas:

Interval scheduling
Huffman coding
Activity selection

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Maximum Subarray - Kadane's algorithm

2. Easy: Partition Labels - Interval partitioning
3. Medium: Non-overlapping Intervals - Interval scheduling
4. Medium: Task Scheduler - Process scheduling
5. Hard: Minimum Number of Refueling Stops - Greedy with heap

Day 52: Introduction to Dynamic Programming

Focus Areas:

DP principles and paradigm

Memoization vs. tabulation
Building DP solution step by step

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Climbing Stairs - 1D DP

2. Easy: Min Cost Climbing Stairs - 1D DP with cost
3. Medium: House Robber - Non-adjacent sum
4. Medium: Coin Change - Minimum coins
5. Hard: Longest Valid Parentheses - String DP

Day 53: 1D Dynamic Programming

Focus Areas:

Linear DP problems
State transitions
Optimization problems

Practice Problems:
 1. Easy: Fibonacci Number - Classic DP
2. Easy: Divisor Game - Game theory DP
3. Medium: Longest Increasing Subsequence - LIS problem
4. Medium: Decode Ways - String decoding
5. Hard: Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock III - State machine DP

Day 54: 2D Dynamic Programming

Focus Areas:

Matrix DP problems
Grid-based dynamic programming
Path problems

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Unique Paths - Grid counting

2. Easy: Minimum Path Sum - Grid path optimization
3. Medium: Longest Common Subsequence - String DP
4. Medium: Edit Distance - String modification
5. Hard: Regular Expression Matching - Pattern matching DP

Day 55: Advanced DP Problems

Focus Areas:

Interval DP
Knapsack problems
State compression DP

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Maximum Subarray - Kadane's algorithm

2. Easy: Range Sum Query - Immutable - Prefix sum
3. Medium: Partition Equal Subset Sum - 0/1 Knapsack
4. Medium: Target Sum - DP with signs
5. Hard: Burst Balloons - Interval DP

Day 56: Bit Manipulation Basics

Focus Areas:

Bitwise operators (AND, OR, XOR, NOT)

Bit shifting
Common bit manipulation tricks
Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Number of 1 Bits - Bit counting

2. Easy: Single Number - XOR property
3. Medium: Counting Bits - Bit pattern recognition
4. Medium: Reverse Bits - Bit manipulation
5. Hard: Minimum Number of Flips to Make a OR b Equal to c - Bit comparison

Week 9: Advanced Topics & Interview Preparation

Day 57: Advanced Graph Algorithms
Focus Areas:

Topological sorting
Strongly connected components
Network flow algorithms

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Find the Town Judge - In/out degree

2. Easy: Keys and Rooms - Graph connectivity
3. Medium: Course Schedule II - Topological sort
4. Medium: Evaluate Division - Graph path product
5. Hard: Reconstruct Itinerary - Eulerian path

Day 58: Union-Find & Disjoint Set

Focus Areas:

Union-Find implementation
Path compression and rank optimization
Applications in graph problems

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Number of Provinces - Connected components

2. Easy: Redundant Connection - Cycle detection
3. Medium: Most Stones Removed with Same Row or Column - Connected islands
4. Medium: Accounts Merge - Graph clustering
5. Hard: Swim in Rising Water - Union-find with binary search

Day 59: Mock Interview Practice

Focus Areas:
 Problem-solving under time constraints
Explaining thought process
Handling edge cases

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Two Sum - Array hash

2. Easy: Valid Parentheses - Stack problem
3. Medium: LRU Cache - Design problem
4. Medium: Merge Intervals - Sorting and merging
5. Hard: Trapping Rain Water - Two pointers/stack approach

Day 60: Final Review & Advanced Problem Solving

Focus Areas:

Revisiting core algorithms

Combining multiple techniques
Time and space optimization

Practice Problems:

1. Easy: Merge Two Sorted Lists - Linked list merging

2. Easy: Maximum Subarray - Kadane's algorithm
3. Medium: Word Break - DP with strings
4. Medium: Meeting Rooms II - Interval scheduling
5. Hard: Merge k Sorted Lists - Multi-way merge

Additional Tips for Success:

1. Consistent Practice: Aim for at least 2-3 problems daily, focusing on quality over quantity
2. Track Progress: Keep a log of solved problems and revisit challenging ones
3. Mock Interviews: Use platforms like Pramp, InterviewBit, or ask friends to conduct mock
interviews
4. Time Management: Practice with a timer to simulate interview conditions
5. Implementation Focus: Don't just understand solutions conceptually; implement them
yourself
6. Learn from Mistakes: Analyze where you went wrong and what could be improved
7. Revise Regularly: Schedule weekly revision of core concepts and algorithms
8. Join Communities: Participate in coding communities to learn from others' experiences
9. System Design: Allocate some time to learn system design concepts as well
10. Stay Healthy: Maintain good sleep and exercise habits during your preparation