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DSA — Beginner to Advance: Complete Curriculum

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Data Structures and Algorithms — the one thing that separates a developer who passes interviews from one who doesn't. More importantly, it separates code that works from code that scales.

This series takes you from zero to interview-ready, week by week.


🟢 Beginner — Foundations

# Topic Publish Date
1 Getting Started with Data Structures and Algorithms Nov 1
2 Time Complexity and Big O Notation Nov 7
3 Asymptotic Notations Explained Nov 8
4 Best, Worst, and Average Case Analysis Nov 14
5 Abstract Data Types (ADTs) Nov 15
6 Arrays and Array Operations Nov 21
7 Linear Search vs. Binary Search Nov 22
8 Linked Lists: Dynamic Memory and Pointers Nov 28
9 Circular and Doubly Linked Lists Nov 29
10 Stacks: The LIFO Structure Dec 5
11 Queues: The FIFO Structure Dec 6

🔵 Intermediate — Core Data Structures

# Topic Publish Date
12 Trees and Binary Trees: Hierarchical Data Dec 12
13 Binary Search Trees: Ordered Trees Dec 13
14 Sorting Algorithms: From Bubble Sort to Merge Sort Dec 19
15 Hash Tables: The Magic Behind O(1) Lookups Dec 20
16 Graphs: The Most Powerful Data Structure Dec 26
17 Heaps and Priority Queues Dec 27
18 AVL Trees and Red-Black Trees Jan 2
19 Tries (Prefix Trees): Data Structure Behind Autocomplete Jan 3

🔴 Advanced — Algorithms

# Topic Publish Date
20 Dynamic Programming: Breaking Hard Problems Jan 9
21 Advanced Graph Algorithms: MST, SCC, and More Jan 10
22 Segment Trees and Fenwick Trees Jan 16
23 Greedy Algorithms: Locally Optimal Choices Jan 17
24 Backtracking: Systematic Search Through All Possibilities Jan 23
25 String Algorithms: KMP, Rabin-Karp, and Z-Algorithm Jan 24
26 Divide and Conquer: Split, Solve, Combine Jan 30
27 Advanced Hashing and Bloom Filters Jan 31

📅 How to Follow This Series

  • New posts drop every Saturday & Sunday
  • Start from #1 — every concept builds on the previous
  • Each post includes examples and complexity analysis

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