# Next book (and tutorial topic): Data Structures and Algorithms

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And…trigger pulled! 🙂 The plan is to have this done by June 2023. I’m still going back and forth on the TOC, but here is the tentative list:

1. What makes this worth learning? (aka Why should you care?)
2. Data Structures
  1. Arrays
  2. Hash Tables
  3. Set
  4. Linked Lists
  5. Stacks
  6. Queues
  7. Trees (Advanced - may skip)
    1. Binary
    2. Red-Black
    3. AVL

  8. Graphs:
    1. Directed
    2. Undirected

  9. Heaps
  10. Tries

3. Algorithms
  1. Recursion
  2. Memoization
  3. Performance: Speed and Memory Considerations
  4. Searches
    1. Linear Search
    2. Binary Search
    3. Depth-First Search
    4. Breadth-First Search

  5. Sorts
    1. Selection
    2. Insertion
    3. Merge
    4. Bubble
    5. Quick
    6. Counting
    7. Radix
    8. Shell

  6. Shortest Distance (Djikstra) (Advanced - may skip)
  7. A\* (Greedy) (Advanced - may skip)

4. Popular Examples
  1. Towers of Hanoi
  2. Monty Hall Problem
  3. Square Matrix Rotation
  4. Caesar’s Cipher
  5. Rail Fence Cipher
  6. Hamming Distance
  7. Fisher-Yates Shuffle
  8. Best Time to Buy and Sell Stock

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