DSA Crash Course: Quick Revision Notes
By ClassNotes Team
This document is intended for educational purposes. It provides structured insights, examples, and
foundational understanding of the topic.
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DSA Crash Course: Quick Revision Notes
Arrays & Strings
Arrays allow indexed access. Sliding window is key for problems like max sum subarrays. Example:
Find subarray of size k with max sum.
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DSA Crash Course: Quick Revision Notes
Linked Lists
Linked lists are dynamic. Use slow-fast pointers to detect cycles. Example: Reverse a linked list
iteratively and recursively.
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DSA Crash Course: Quick Revision Notes
Stacks & Queues
Stacks are LIFO. Used in parsing and recursion. Queues are FIFO. Example: Implement queue
using 2 stacks.
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DSA Crash Course: Quick Revision Notes
Trees & Graphs
Binary trees use DFS/BFS. Graphs use adjacency lists. Example: Level-order traversal, detecting
cycles in undirected graphs.
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DSA Crash Course: Quick Revision Notes
Dynamic Programming
DP solves overlapping subproblems. Memoization = top-down, tabulation = bottom-up. Example: 0/1
Knapsack, Fibonacci.
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