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DIY: Alien Dictionary

Explore how to extract the lexicographical order of letters from an alien language dictionary. Understand the approach to interpret word lists with unique letter sequences and apply these techniques to solve related coding interview challenges in cyber security.

Problem statement

In this coding exercise, you are given a list of words written in an alien language, where the strings in the words are sorted lexicographically by the rules of this language. Surprisingly, the aliens also use English lowercase letters, but possibly in a different order. ...