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String

1. Run-length encoding (find/print frequency of letters in a string)
2. Checking Anagrams (check whether two string is anagrams or not)
3. Count and Say sequence
4. Longest Common Prefix
5. Count Substrings
6. Number following the pattern
7. Next Permutation
8. Convert Ternary Expression to Binary Tree
9. Count of strings that can be formed using a, b and c under given constraints
10. Minimum Number of Flips
11. Count Occurrences of Anagrams
12. Rearrange a string
13. Print bracket number
14. Longest Palindromic Subsequence

Arrays

1. Sort an array of 0's, 1's and 2's in linear time complexity
2. Check for Valid Sudoku
3. Palindromic Array
4. Largest Fibonacci Subsequence
5. Pairs of songs with total durations divisible by 60
6. All subarray Sum of an array

Sorting

1. Sort an array of 0's, 1's and 2's in linear time complexity
2. Relative sorting algorithm

Searching

1. Finding First Bad Version
2. Maximum value in a bitonic array

Coding Algorithms

1. Run-length encoding (find/print frequency of letters in a string)
2. Sort an array of 0's, 1's and 2's in linear time complexity
3. Finding subarray with given sum
4. 1[0]1 Pattern Count
5. Capitalize first and last letter of each word in a line
6. Greedy Strategy to solve major algorithm problems
7. Job sequencing problem
8. Exit Point in a Matrix
9. Generate Gray Code Sequences
10. Picking Numbers

Tree

1. Find the level in a binary tree with given sum K
2. Check whether a Binary Tree is BST (Binary Search Tree) or not
3. Print vertical sum of a binary tree
4. Print Boundary Sum of a Binary Tree
5. Root to leaf Path Sum
6. Print All Nodes that don't have Sibling
7. Two Mirror Trees
8. Transform to Sum Tree
9. Symmetric Tree
10. Convert Sorted Array to Binary Search Tree
11. Odd even level difference in a binary tree
12. Check if Tree is Isomorphic
13. Expression Tree
14. K distance from root
15. Right View of Binary Tree
16. Diameter of Binary Tree
17. Delete nodes greater than or equal to k in a BST
18. Reverse Level Order Traversal
19. Diagonal Traversal of Binary Tree
20. Leftmost and Rightmost Nodes of Binary Tree
21. Lowest Common Ancestor in a BST
22. Convert Ternary Expression to Binary Tree
23. Bottom View of Binary Tree
24. Ancestors in Binary Tree
25. All Root to Leaf Paths
26. Sum of all numbers formed by root to leaf path
27. Minimum distance between two given nodes of a Binary Tree
28. K-th smallest element in a Binary Search Tree
29. Level order traversal in spiral form

Stack

1. Number following the pattern
2. Print bracket number

Linked list

1. Reverse a single linked list
2. Find length of loop in a linked list
3. Palindrome Linked List
4. Intersection Point in Y-Shaped Linked List
5. Absolute sorting on a single linked list

Graph

1. Rotten Oranges
2. Alien Dictionary
3. Find the number of islands
4. Check a graph is Hamiltonian or not (Hamiltonian path)
5. Knight walk problem

Greedy Algorithms

1. Greedy Strategy to solve major algorithm problems
2. Job sequencing problem
3. Fractional knapsack problem

Dynamic Programming

1. 0-1 Knapsack Algorithm
2. House Robber
3. Coin Change
4. Word Break Problem

Matrix

1. Exit Point in a Matrix
2. Shortest Source to Destination Path

Recursion

1. Palindromic Array

Number theory

1. Sieve of Eratosthenes

Bitwise operators

1. Game of XOR

Puzzle

1. Prisoners and the poison

Combinatorics

1. Total number of non-decreasing numbers with n digits

Miscellaneous

1. Find nth Magic number
2. Toppers of Class
3. Where is my seat?
4. Google CodeJam 2019 | Foregone Solution
5. Find the perfect land of C shape
6. Find the magic matrix