Competitive Programming Curriculum


Module 1: Introduction to Competitive Programming

  • What is Competitive Programming?
  • Benefits and importance of Competitive Programming
  • Basic terminology: Time Complexity, Space Complexity, Big O notation
  • Online judges and platforms (GeeksforGeeks, LeetCode, Codeforces, AtCoder, TopCoder, etc.)
  • Setting up coding environment (IDE, online compilers)
  • Basic input/output and debugging techniques

Module 2: Data Structures

  • Arrays and strings
  • Stacks and queues
  • Linked lists
  • Hashing and hash maps
  • Trees (Binary Trees, Binary Search Trees, Heaps)
  • Graphs (Graph representation, BFS, DFS)

Module 3: Algorithms

  • Sorting algorithms (Bubble, Selection, Insertion, Merge, Quick)
  • Searching algorithms (Binary Search)
  • Greedy algorithms and problems
  • Dynamic programming concepts and practice
  • Divide and Conquer algorithms

Module 4: Advanced Data Structures

  • Priority queues and heaps
  • Disjoint Set Union (DSU) or Union-Find
  • Advanced tree structures (AVL, Red-Black Trees)
  • Trie data structure
  • Segment Trees and Fenwick Trees

Module 5: Graph Algorithms

  • Shortest path algorithms (Dijkstra's, Bellman-Ford, Floyd-Warshall)
  • Minimum Spanning Tree algorithms (Prim's, Kruskal's)
  • Strongly Connected Components (Kosaraju's algorithm)
  • Topological Sorting
  • Advanced graph problems

Module 6: Number Theory

  • Prime number generation and testing
  • GCD and LCM
  • Sieve of Eratosthenes
  • Modular arithmetic and modular inverses
  • Euler's Totient Function and its applications

Module 7: String Algorithms

  • String searching algorithms (KMP, Rabin-Karp)
  • Longest Common Subsequence (LCS)
  • Edit distance
  • Suffix arrays and suffix trees

Module 8: Advanced Topics

  • Bit manipulation and bitwise operations
  • Combinatorics and probability
  • Geometry algorithms
  • Game theory and Nim games
  • Advanced dynamic programming problems

Module 9: Practice and Contests

  • Participating in online contests
  • Time management during contests
  • Strategies for solving problems under time pressure
  • Solving contest-style problems together

Module 10: Real-world Applications

  • Problem-solving in technical interviews
  • Applying competitive programming skills to real-world scenarios
  • Open-source contributions and algorithm optimization

Module 11: Special Topics (Optional)

  • Parallel programming and multi-threading
  • Advanced competitive programming languages (like Rust)
  • Advanced debugging techniques

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