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Java DSA

The document outlines a comprehensive Java Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) roadmap aimed at preparing candidates for top tech interviews with packages of 10 LPA or more. It details various phases covering foundational Java concepts, time and space complexity, data structures, algorithms, and interview preparation strategies. The roadmap emphasizes mastery of topics through practice and revision, encouraging candidates to tackle over 300 DSA problems and engage in mock interviews.

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Java DSA

The document outlines a comprehensive Java Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) roadmap aimed at preparing candidates for top tech interviews with packages of 10 LPA or more. It details various phases covering foundational Java concepts, time and space complexity, data structures, algorithms, and interview preparation strategies. The roadmap emphasizes mastery of topics through practice and revision, encouraging candidates to tackle over 300 DSA problems and engage in mock interviews.

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💼 Java DSA Roadmap for Top Tech Interviews (10+ LPA)

🔥
💰 Goal: Crack Product-Based Companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, etc.

💻 Target: 10 LPA+ Packages

📜 Language: Java
Format: Topic-by-topic (no coding)

📍 Phase 0: Java Foundations [Must-Have]

🧠
🧩 Variables, Data Types, Type Casting

🌀
🎒
Operators, Control Flow (if, switch, loops)
Functions, Recursion

📦
🧵
OOP Principles (Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Abstraction)
Java Collections (List, Set, Map)

⚙️ Strings & StringBuilder

🔄 Exception Handling
I/O Basics (Scanner, BufferedReader, File Handling)

⏱ Phase 1: Time & Space Complexity


📈
⏳ Big O Notation

🔁
📊
Worst / Best / Average Case
Analyzing Nested Loops

🧠 Complexity of Recursion
Space Optimization Techniques

🧩 Phase 2: Arrays & Strings

🔢
➕ 1D & 2D Arrays

⚖️
🪟
Prefix Sum, Suffix Sum
Two Pointers

🧭
♻️
Sliding Window
Binary Search on Arrays

🔍 Rotate Arrays, Rearrangement

🧵 Search in Rotated Sorted Array


String Pattern Matching (KMP, Rabin-Karp)

🎯 Phase 3: Sorting & Searching

🔁
📦 Bubble, Selection, Insertion

🧱
⏳
Merge Sort, Quick Sort
Heap Sort

🔍
🎯
Counting Sort, Bucket Sort
Binary Search Variants

🧠 Search in Matrix, First/Last Occurrence


Binary Search on Answer (Min-Max Problems)
🔄 Phase 4: Recursion & Backtracking

🔁
🧠 Recursion Tree, Stack Space

🌌 Base and Recursive Case Design

📚 Backtracking Essentials (Sudoku, N-Queens, Maze Path)


Subsets, Permutations, Combinations

🔗 Phase 5: Linked List

📄
🔁 Singly, Doubly, and Circular LL

🚪
➕
Reversing a List
Detect & Remove Cycle (Floyd’s Algo)

🧠 Add Numbers as LL

📦 Merge K Lists, Intersection Point


Sort a Linked List (Merge Sort)

🧱 Phase 6: Stack & Queue

📚
🧠 Stack using Array/LL

🔁
🪟
Next Greater Element
Valid Parentheses

⏳
🚆
Monotonic Stack
Queue using Array/LL

🌀 Circular Queue

🌊 Deque, LRU Cache (LinkedHashMap / DLL+Map)


Sliding Window Maximum

🌳 Phase 7: Trees & Binary Trees

🌲
📏 Tree Traversals (Inorder, Preorder, Postorder, Level Order)

🔍
🧠
Height, Diameter, Balanced Tree
Find Element, Path Sum, Mirror Tree

🧮
🔄
Lowest Common Ancestor (LCA)
BST Operations (Insert/Delete/Search)

🧵 Construct Tree from Traversals

📚 Serialize & Deserialize Tree


Trie Implementation & Uses

🏗 Phase 8: Heaps & Priority Queue

🏗
⛏ Min-Heap, Max-Heap

🧠
🎲
Build Heap, Heapify
Top K Elements

🔁
🧭
K Closest Numbers
Median in Data Stream
Java’s PriorityQueue Class

🔐 Phase 9: Hashing
📦
🧠 HashMap, HashSet (Java Collections)

📊
🎯
Frequency Count
Count Distinct Elements

🧩 Longest Subarray with Sum K

🧮 Group Anagrams, Isomorphic Strings


Subarray Sums & Hashing Techniques

🌐 Phase 10: Graphs

🧱
🔁 Representation (Adjacency List, Matrix)

🔄
📦
DFS, BFS Traversals
Cycle Detection (Directed & Undirected)

🪜 Union-Find (Disjoint Set)


Topological Sort (Kahn’s Algo, DFS)

🌉
⛓ Shortest Path (Dijkstra, Bellman-Ford, Floyd-Warshall)

🧠 MST (Prim’s & Kruskal’s Algorithm)

🔍 Graph Coloring, Bipartite Graph


Bridges, Articulation Points

🧠 Phase 11: Dynamic Programming (DP)

🪜
🎒 Recursion → Memoization → Tabulation

🔁
🧵
0/1 Knapsack + Variants
Fibonacci, Climbing Stairs, Grid Path

➕
🧮
Longest Common Subsequence (LCS)
Longest Increasing Subsequence (LIS)

🎭
🧩
Palindromic Substrings
DP on Subsets, Strings, Grids, Trees

🧠 DP with Binary Search


Bitmask DP

💡 Phase 12: Bit Manipulation

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🧠 AND, OR, XOR, NOT

🔁
🔍
Power of Two / Four
Count Set Bits

🧬 Single / Missing Number Problems

🎯 Subset Generation using Bits


XOR-based Tricks

🧩 Phase 13: Greedy Algorithms

🎒
💸 Activity Selection

🧠
🔄
Fractional Knapsack
Huffman Coding

🧾 Gas Station

🔁 Greedy + Sorting + Heap Techniques


Job Scheduling
🧪 Phase 14: Patterns & Techniques (Very Important)

🪟
⚖️ Sliding Window

🔁
🔄
Two Pointers
Fast & Slow Pointers

💭
📌
Prefix Sum
Recursion Tree & State Diagram

🎯
🧭
State Compression in DP
Bitmasking + DP

🧠 Binary Search on Answer

🔄 Graph + DFS/BFS Variations


Monotonic Stack & Queue

🧑‍💻 Phase 15: Interview Preparation

🧪
🧩 300+ DSA Problems (Leetcode, GFG, InterviewBit)

🎯
🧱
Company-specific Problems
Blind 75 / Striver’s DSA Sheet

🧠
📂
System Design Basics (for 10LPA+ roles)
Mock Interviews

🧠 Behavioral Questions & STAR Method


Resume Projects + DSA Involvement

🏁 Final Tips

✅
🧠 Focus on mastery, not speed

📅
🎯
Revise concepts frequently
Practice 2–3 problems/day

👨‍💻 Track progress with spreadsheets

💬 Contribute to GitHub or Blogs


Discuss DSA daily with peers

🌟 Believe in yourself — You Got This 💪


🚀 Your dream 10+ LPA job is waiting. One topic at a time!

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