Resources
LeetCode interview prep resources
Section titled “LeetCode interview prep resources”Core track
Section titled “Core track”- NeetCode roadmap The main pattern ordering for the practical sequence of topics.
- LeetCode The practice ground itself.
Books and foundations
Section titled “Books and foundations”- Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell Best used here as a problem-solving method and interview mindset guide, not as a replacement for deliberate pattern practice.
- Big-O Cheat Sheet Good quick refresher when runtime intuition feels rusty.
Optional companions
Section titled “Optional companions”- VisuAlgo Helpful when trees, heaps, graphs, or union-find feel abstract.
- MIT 6.006 Introduction to Algorithms Useful later when you want deeper structure behind the patterns.