✅ Course Title: Data Structures – 45-Day Intensive Program
Duration: 45 Days (9 Weeks, 5 Days/Week)
Mode: Online/Offline + Hands-on Lab Practice
🎯 Course Objectives:
Build a strong understanding of core data structures.
Develop problem-solving and algorithmic thinking.
Implement data structures from scratch.
Prepare for technical interviews and coding tests.
🔹 Week 1 – Fundamentals & Arrays
Day 1: Course Intro, Algorithm Basics, Time & Space Complexity (Big O)
Day 2: Introduction to Arrays – Definition, Declaration, Operations
Day 3: Array Traversals, Insertion, Deletion
Day 4: Searching – Linear & Binary Search
Day 5: Sorting – Bubble, Selection, Insertion
🔹 Week 2 – Strings and Matrices
Day 6: String Basics – Operations, Palindrome, Reverse, etc.
Day 7: String Matching (Naive, KMP Basic Concept)
Day 8: 2D Arrays – Matrix Representation
Day 9: Matrix Operations (Addition, Multiplication, Transpose)
Day 10: Problems using Arrays and Strings
🔹 Week 3 – Linked Lists
Day 11: Introduction to Linked List – Singly Linked List
Day 12: Operations – Insert, Delete, Search
Day 13: Doubly Linked List – Basics and Operations
Day 14: Circular Linked List – Concepts & Implementation
Day 15: Applications & Practice Problems
🔹 Week 4 – Stacks and Queues
Day 16: Stack – Concepts, Implementation (Array/Linked List)
Day 17: Applications – Infix to Postfix, Balanced Parentheses
Day 18: Queue – Concepts, Implementation
Day 19: Circular Queue & Priority Queue
Day 20: Deque & Use Cases
🔹 Week 5 – Recursion and Trees
Day 21: Introduction to Recursion – Basics & Examples
Day 22: Tree Basics – Binary Trees, Terminology
Day 23: Tree Traversals – Inorder, Preorder, Postorder
Day 24: Binary Search Trees (BST)
Day 25: BST Operations – Insertion, Deletion, Search
🔹 Week 6 – Heaps and Hashing
Day 26: Introduction to Heaps – Min Heap, Max Heap
Day 27: Heap Sort & Applications
Day 28: Hash Tables – Concepts, Hash Functions
Day 29: Collision Resolution – Chaining, Open Addressing
Day 30: Practice Problems – Hashing & Heaps
🔹 Week 7 – Graphs
Day 31: Graph Basics – Representation (Matrix, List)
Day 32: Graph Traversals – BFS, DFS
Day 33: Shortest Path – Dijkstra’s Algorithm
Day 34: Topological Sort & Connected Components
Day 35: Real-life Applications of Graphs
🔹 Week 8 – Searching, Sorting & Review
Day 36: Quick Sort & Merge Sort
Day 37: Counting Sort, Radix Sort (Optional)
Day 38: Comparison of Searching & Sorting Techniques
Day 39: Real-time Case Studies (Compiler, OS, etc.)
Day 40: Coding Practice / Mock Interviews
🔹 Week 9 – Mini Project & Final Assessment
Day 41: Project Planning & Dataset Understanding
Day 42: Implementation Day – I
Day 43: Implementation Day – II
Day 44: Testing & Debugging
Day 45: Project Presentations + Final Quiz