Brian Sunter

Algorithms Boot Camp Topics

An outline of all the most important topics for studying algorithms

This is the full study guide for the Algorithms Boot Camp and meant to be a complete roadmap for everything you need to know about algorithms.

As I write more notes, I’ll link to them here.

Array

Problems

two sum

search index

kth largest element in array

Concepts

2d arrays

nd arrays

jagged array

Linked list

Operations

Insert

Delete

Find

Reverse

counting

finding middle

merging

kth to last note

detecting cycles

Stack

Towers of Hanoi

Queue

LIFO

FIFO

Tree

Concepts

root

edge

leaf

depth

Binary Tree

Binary Search Trees

Problems

level order traversalre

construct tree from traversal

Balanced tree

AVL Tree

b-tree

Operations

Insertion

Deletion

Traversal

Pre order

in order

post order

Search

Breadth First Search

Depth First Search

find min/max

find successor predecessor

Hash table

Implementations

Array

Linked List

Binary Tree

Operations

get

put

delete

Hash Function

Linear Probing

Quadratic Probing

Collision Resolution

Problems

lru cache

Heap

Priority queue

heap

Compare function

enqueue

dequeue

peek

Concepts

complete binary tree

priority queue

array representation

Min Heap

Max Heap

Operations

build

insert

get

delete

heapify

heap sort in place

Problems

merge k sorted lists

kth largest element in array

the skyline problem

Trie

compressed trie

suffix trie

Advanced data structures

skip list

suffix tree

suffix array

bloom filter

Sorting

bubble-sort

insertion sort

merge sort

quick sort

radix sort

sort stability

counting sort

Problems

dutch national flag

merge two sorted arrays

Graph

Concepts

Graph theory

Pathfinding

Connectivity

Shortest Path

Minimum Spanning Tree

Cycles

disjoint graph

Operations

Traversal

Breadth First Search

Depth First Search

bipartite graph

topological sort

djikstra’s algorithm

bellman-ford

Floyd-Warshall algorithm

Prim’s algorithm

Kruskal’s algorithm

Graph Representations

adjacency list

adjacency matrix

Recursion

Concepts

Backtracking

Base Case

Recursive Case

Inductive Step

Tail Recursion

Memoization

Problems

recursive factorial

recursive exponent

subsets of size n

fibonacci numbers

pascals triangle

towers of hanoi

combinatorial enumeration of binary strings

letter case permutations

subsets 1

permutations 1

permutations 2

subset sum

generate parenthesis

n queens

subarray sum equals k

valid parentesis

String Algorithms

Concepts

String matching

Pattern matching

String search

Data compression

Edit distance

Substring search

String similarity measures

Operations

rabin karp

kmp knuth morris pratt

Problems

non repeating characters

anagram

palindrome

frequency counting

reverse

Dynamic Programming

Problems

0/1 knapsack

longest common subsequence

subset sum

mimimum edit distance

minimum numbers of coins

longest increasing subsequence

longest palindromic subsequence

text justification

Computational Geometry

Network Flow Algorithms

network flow

maximum flow

minimum cut

Ford–Fulkerson

Edmonds–Karp

Dinic’s algorithm

König’s theorem

NP-Complete

Approximation

Simulated annealing

Tabu search

Genetic algorithms

Ant colony optimization

Particle swarm optimization

Cross-entropy method

Examples of NP Problems

Set Cover

Knapsack

Bin Packing

Shortest Path

Maximum Flow

Minimum Cut

Vertex Cover

Hamiltonian Path

Traveling Salesman

Satisfiability Problem

Partition Problem

Clique Problem

Chromatic Number Problem

linear search

binary search

Depth-first search

Breadth-first search

Best-first search

A* search

Dijkstra’s algorithm

Bellman-Ford algorithm

Floyd-Warshall algorithm

Johnson’s algorithm

Algorithm Design

Greedy algorithms

Dynamic programming

Divide and conquer

decrease and conquer

transform and conquer

Randomized algorithms

Algorithm Analysis

Harmonic series

aritmetic geometric series

Time Complexity

big-O notation

Omega notation

Theta notation

little-o notation

arithmetic series

harmonic series

arthmetic geometric series

Space Complexity

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