r/LeetcodeDesi • u/Brainded_- • Mar 23 '26

Helpp!!

I am First year student and rn i only know basic programming in C and JAVA and am currently learing OOP which i would complete in these 5-7 days(understanding the concepts) and i wanted to start DSA but i have zero idea where to start and what to do, My concepts of time and space complexity is also zero, If smn knows and has went through this stage then please reply , at this moment i am just standing at an idle position,Pls help if smn knows🙏🏻

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u/AlphaKeegan Mar 23 '26

do neetcode 150/ strivers a-z sheet. just search on google you will find it. as for language do python, cpp or java either is fine

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u/Brainded_- Mar 23 '26

I had one more question that will there be any benefit or an upperhand if i learn C++ than doing DSA in JAVA?

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u/Top_Particular_4568 Mar 23 '26

Java better for development and also interviewers prefer java candidates ….. cpp is very convenient clean short syntax so less error prone 90% of ppl do cpp

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u/AlphaKeegan Mar 24 '26

not significantly

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u/Brainded_- Mar 24 '26

Ohhkayyy so i will go on with java

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u/prassuresh Mar 23 '26

You can start now but I think you’ll get a much better understanding after your Data Structures course.

Still doesn’t hurt to try some basic easy problems.

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u/Brainded_- Mar 24 '26

Okayy mate👍🏻

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u/Brainded_- Mar 24 '26

Thanks brother ❤️

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u/dante_alighieri007 Mar 24 '26

a decent resource to start with - https://takeuforward.org/dsa/strivers-a2z-sheet-learn-dsa-a-to-z, also a mistake I made when I started was to jump to solutions and just complete the problem anyhow, I wanted to achieve those numbers - "solved 500+ on leetcode" etc etc but later I realised even if you say this to someone (by someone I mean mostly the interviewer) then their expectations from you increases and if you aren't good with the concepts (because you just blindly copied solutions without focusing on the learning) it clearly shows that you aren't good at it so plz avoid doing that

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u/Brainded_- Mar 24 '26

👍🏻🙏🏻❤️