SproutStack🌱 DSA (Beginner) · Start Here · cozy lesson
How to Pick a Pattern
9 min · 1 min read · no scary math, promise
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You’ve got this. Read a little, play a little — I’ll wait. No rush.
Cheat cues (beginner)
- Sorted / pair / palindrome → Two Pointers
- Contiguous subarray/substring, longest/shortest → Sliding Window
- Counts, duplicates, Two Sum → Hash Map
- Range sum queries → Prefix Sum
- Search in sorted/rotated → Binary Search
If stuck: brute first, ask “am I rechecking? Can a map/window remember it?”
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Correct answers earn XP (once each).
1. 'Sorted array, pair sum' → ?
2. 'Longest substring without repeat' → ?
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