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| Chapter | Topic | Priority | Key Implementations | |---------|-------|----------|----------------------| | 1 | Overview | Low | None (concepts) | | 2 | Arrays | High | class LowArray , HighArray , ordered array, binary search | | 3 | Simple Sorting | High | Bubble, Selection, Insertion sort | | 4 | Stacks & Queues | High | Stack (array), Queue (circular), Priority Queue | | 5 | Linked Lists | High | Singly, Doubly, sorted list, iterator | | 6 | Recursion | Medium | Factorial, binary search, merge sort, Towers of Hanoi | | 7 | Advanced Sorting | Medium-High | Shellsort, Quicksort (partitioning, median-of-three) | | 8 | Binary Trees | High | BST: insert, find, delete, traverse (in/pre/post) | | 9 | Red-Black Trees | Medium | Rules, rotations, insertion (conceptual + code) | | 10 | 2-3-4 Trees & B-Trees | Medium | Splitting, merging, external storage | | 11 | Hash Tables | High | Linear/Quadratic probing, double hashing, separate chaining | | 12 | Heaps & Priority Queues | Medium | Heapify, insert, remove, heap sort | | 13 | Graphs | Medium-High | Adjacency matrix/list, BFS, DFS, MST (weighted/unweighted) | | 14 | Weighted Graphs | Medium | Dijkstra, Floyd-Warshall, minimum spanning tree | | 15 | Advanced Topics | Low | Spatial data structures (brief) | if (key <
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Node insert(Node root, int key) if (root == null) return new Node(key); if (key < root.data) root.left = insert(root.left, key); else if (key > root.data) root.right = insert(root.right, key); return root;