Common Heaps Pattern
Explore the two key heap patterns used in interviews: the Top-K pattern for efficiently selecting largest or smallest elements without full sorting, and the K-way merge pattern for merging multiple sorted sequences. Understand when and how to apply these patterns in Go to solve typical interview problems involving heaps.
Recognizing that a heap is the right data structure is only the first step. The next step is knowing which pattern to apply. This lesson covers the two most important heap patterns in coding ...