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Stop 21 · Data Structures & AlgorithmsTopics · 13/17

Sliding Window

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In short

A technique for efficiently processing contiguous subarrays/substrings by maintaining a moving 'window' instead of recomputing from scratch for every position.

How to learn this

  1. 1Solve 'maximum sum subarray of size k' using the sliding window technique.
  2. 2Practice both fixed-size and variable-size sliding window problems.
  3. 3Recognize sliding-window-shaped problems: anything about a contiguous subarray/substring with a constraint.

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