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Solution: Word Ladder

Understand how to implement a BFS algorithm to solve the Word Ladder problem by finding the shortest sequence transforming a source word into a destination word. Learn to use queue structures and sets for efficient word lookups, practice BFS traversal in tackle word transformation challenges, and analyze time and space complexity involved.

Statement

Given two words, src and dest, and a list, words, return the number of words in the shortest transformation sequence from src to dest. If no such sequence could be formed, return 00.

A transformation sequence is a sequence of words ( ...