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Solution: Word Ladder

Explore how to solve the Word Ladder problem by applying breadth-first search to identify the shortest sequence transforming a source word into a destination word, changing one character at a time. Understand the algorithm steps, implementation approach, and complexity to efficiently navigate word transformations in coding interviews.

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 ( ...