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Dive into graph traversal: BFS for shortest unweighted paths, DFS for exhaustive discovery, plus weighted variants—Dijkstra, A*, bidirectional, and heuristic search. Understand frontier control and edge‑cost strategy for optimal exploration.
This article will guide and help you explore search methods and algorithms tailored to core data structures: linear & binary scans in arrays, O(1) hash lookups, prefix tries, balanced BSTs, skip lists, and B‑trees, mechanics, trade‑offs, and practical use cases.
This comprehensive guide demystifies search algorithms, from simple linear scans to hash‑table lookups, tries, balanced trees, and BFS/DFS in graphs. All while showing you how each strategy slashes lookup time for specific data shapes and teaching you how to write efficient code.
Whether you are a new programmer or brushing up on fundamentals, this guide will help you understand these essential algorithms in a clear, tutorial-friendly way. From sorting, searching, graphing and cryptography to dynamic programming, greediness and machine learning algorithms.
