study_guide.md

Study plan sorted by order of cost-effectiveness

MVP

• Chapter 1: Arrays and Strings
• Chapter 2: Linked Lists
• Chapter 3: Stacks and Queues
• Chapter 4: Trees and Graphs
• Chapter 9: Recursion and Dynamic Programming
• Chapter 11: Sorting and Searching
• Chapter 17: Moderate

HIGH VALUE

• Chapter 10: Scalability and Memory Limits
• Chapter 18: Hard
• Chapter 5: Bit Manipulation
• Chapter 12: Testing

RELATED TO THINGS RARELY ASKED

• Chapter 7: Mathematics and Probability
• Chapter 16: Threads and Locks
• Chapter 15: Databases
• Chapter 13: C and C++

USELESS AND BEYOND

• Chapter 13: Java
  • Too basic to be of worth.
• Chapter 6: Brain Teasers
  • Nobody does brain teasers anymore.
• Chapter 8: Object-oriented design
  • The reason this was useless in my case, is that the information it has is very generic.