Solution: Swapping Nodes in a Linked List
Explore how to swap the kth node from the beginning and the end of a linked list using three approaches: three-pass, two-pass, and one-pass traversal. Understand pointer manipulation to optimize the algorithm with O(n) time and O(1) space complexities. This lesson helps you grasp in-place linked list operations for coding interview problems.
Statement
Given the head of a linked list and an integer, k, return the head of the linked list after swapping the values of the node from the beginning and the node from the end of the linked list.
Note: We’ll number the nodes of the linked list starting from to .
Constraints:
- The linked list will have
nnumber of nodes. -
kn -
Node.value
Solution
Swapping the