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DIY: Max Area of an Island

Explore how to identify and compute the largest connected island area within a binary grid containing land and water cells. This lesson helps you practice mapping a grid-based real-world problem to an algorithmic solution, improving your coding interview skills with depth-first search techniques.

Problem statement

Given an m x n binary matrix grid containing 0s and 1s, you have to return the maximum contiguous area that is occupied by an island.

Each cell in the grid represents either land or water. A cell with 1 ...