Great! Here’s a personalized, step-by-step LeetCode learning plan tailored for your Java background—optimized for Salesforce-style interviews and aimed at building depth one problem at a time.


🚀 6-Week LeetCode Mastery Plan (Java Focus)

Goal: Master 35–40 high-impact LeetCode questions with solid solutions, edge cases, and Java coding patterns.


📅 Week 1 — Arrays & Hashing Fundamentals

Day Problem Difficulty Notes
1 Two Sum Easy Warm-up, basics of HashMap
2 K-diff Pairs in an Array Medium Asked at Salesforce
3 Product of Array Except Self Medium Tricky, use prefix products
4 Subarray Sum Equals K Medium Prefix sum technique
5 Longest Consecutive Sequence Medium Uses HashSet
6–7 Deep dive + review all Recode from memory, test edge cases

📅 Week 2 — Strings & Sliding Window

Day Problem Difficulty Notes
1 Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters Medium Classic sliding window
2 Find All Anagrams in a String Medium Two pointer logic
3 Maximum Number of Occurrences of a Substring Medium Salesforce favorite
4 Palindromic Substrings Medium Count using expand-around-center
5 Longest Palindromic Substring Medium Dynamic Programming intro
6–7 Code review + discuss in mock Q&A format Try to optimize further

📅 Week 3 — LinkedList & Stack

Day Problem Difficulty Notes
1 Reverse Linked List Easy Recursive + Iterative
2 Palindrome Linked List Easy/Medium Fast/slow pointer technique
3 Min Stack Easy Track min in constant time
4 Valid Parentheses Easy Stack problem
5 Daily Temperatures Medium Monotonic stack
6–7 Refactor best practices with Java Collections Use Deque, LinkedList, etc.

📅 Week 4 — Trees & Graphs

Day Problem Difficulty Notes
1 Number of Islands Medium FAANG + Salesforce classic
2 Clone Graph Medium Use BFS/DFS with HashMap
3 Binary Tree Level Order Traversal Medium BFS with queue
4 Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree Medium Recursive exploration
5 Word Ladder Hard BFS on word graph
6–7 Implement using adjacency lists / Java deque Bonus: practice for follow-ups

📅 Week 5 — Dynamic Programming (DP)

Day Problem Difficulty Notes
1 House Robber Medium Try bottom-up and memoization
2 Longest Increasing Subsequence Medium Asked at many top firms
3 Coin Change Medium Classic DP bottom-up
4 Word Break Medium Use DP + dictionary
5 Edit Distance Hard Matrix dp with string compare
6–7 Revise, solve time+space optimized version Present code aloud

📅 Week 6 — System Design / High-level + Misc.

Day Problem Difficulty Notes
1 LRU Cache Medium Uses LinkedHashMap or custom DoublyList + HashMap
2 LFU Cache Hard Salesforce favorite
3 Insert Delete GetRandom O(1) Medium HashMap + ArrayList
4 Design Twitter Medium Object-oriented design
5 Merge Intervals Medium Sorting + merging logic
6–7 Full mock interview round Practice coding + talking through Java APIs

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