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Grokking the Coding Interview: Patterns for Coding Questions

Fast track your coding interview prep by learning coding patterns. Act smartly, and follow the coding patterns.

Your Roadmap to Coding Interview Success
Don't struggle through countless coding questions. Follow popular patterns to streamline your journey.
Two Pointers
Two Pointers

Efficient list traversal and manipulation with two initialized pointers.

Fast and Slow Pointers
Fast and Slow Pointers

Detects cycles in linked lists using two pointers at different speeds.

Sliding Window
Sliding Window

Uses a sliding window to efficiently find subsets in arrays or strings.

Merge Intervals
Merge Intervals

Efficiently merges overlapping intervals or determines their intersection.

Cyclic Sort
Cyclic Sort

Sorts arrays of numbers from 1 to n in O(n) time complexity.

In-Place Linked List Reversal
In-Place Linked List Reversal

Reverses the order of nodes in a linked list in-place.

Stacks
Stacks

Uses a stack for efficient push, pop, and peek with O(1) time complexity.

Monotonic Stack
Monotonic Stack

Utilizes a monotonic stack for efficient problem solving.

Hash Maps
Hash Maps

Employs hash maps for constant-time lookup and insertion.

Tree Breadth First Search
Tree Breadth First Search

Traverses trees level by level using a queue data structure.

Tree Depth First Search
Tree Depth First Search

Explore trees by traversing each branch as far as possible before backtracking.

Graphs
Graphs

Models relationships through vertices and edges, using BFS, DFS.

Island (Matrix Traversal)
Island (Matrix Traversal)

Solves problems of identifying and counting islands in a matrix.

Two Heaps
Two Heaps

Efficiently solves problems related to scheduling and data streams with heaps.

Subsets
Subsets

Generates all possible or specific subsets of a set.

Modified Binary Search
Modified Binary Search

Solves problems with variations on the classic binary search algorithm.

Bitwise XOR
Bitwise XOR

Uses XOR operations to find unique elements and missing/duplicate numbers.

Top K Elements
Top K Elements

Efficiently finds the top K elements in arrays or streams.

K-way Merge
K-way Merge

Merges K sorted arrays or lists efficiently into one sorted array or list in linear time.

Greedy Algorithms
Greedy Algorithms

Uses a greedy approach to find locally optimal solution for a global optimum.

0/1 Knapsack
0/1 Knapsack

Addresses optimization problems where items have values and weights.

Backtracking
Backtracking

Depth-first technique to solve problems by exploring different possibilities.

Trie
Trie

Tree-like data structure for efficient retrieval of key-value pairs or strings.

Topological Sort (graph)
Topological Sort (graph)

Orders directed graph vertices such that u precedes v for every edge (u, v).

Union Find
Union Find

Data structure tracking elements grouped into disjoint sets.

Ordered Set
Ordered Set

Set maintaining sorted element. Useful for rank and range queries.

Multi-threaded
Multi-threaded

Uses multiple threads for concurrent tasks, enhancing system performance.

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Our courses are designed with a focus on accelerated, pattern-based learning. Instead of overwhelming you with thousands of problems, we show you the key patterns that solve most of them. This approach helps demystify complex coding and design problems by teaching you to recognize underlying patterns, making it easier to tackle similar problems in the future.

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