TreeSet
Phase 1: Core Java
Map
HashMap
Master these topics before moving on. TreeMap
Queue
Java Basics PriorityQueue
Iterator
JDK, JRE, JVM Comparable & Comparator
Variables and Data Types
Operators Java Features
Input/Output
Type Casting Generics
Control Statements Enums
Loops Annotations
Arrays Lambda Expressions
Methods Functional Interfaces
Command Line Arguments Streams API
Optional
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Date & Time API
Records (basics)
Classes & Objects
Constructors Multithreading
this and super
Inheritance Thread
Polymorphism Runnable
Abstraction Synchronization
Encapsulation Executor Framework
Interfaces CompletableFuture (basics)
Packages
File Handling
Exception Handling
File API
try-catch-finally BufferedReader
throw & throws BufferedWriter
Custom Exceptions Serialization
NIO Basics
Strings
String
StringBuilder
StringBuffer Phase 2: Java for DSA
Common String Problems
(2–3 months)
Collections Framework
Time Complexity
List
ArrayList Big O
LinkedList Big Omega
Set Big Theta
HashSet
Recursion Heap
Basic Recursion Graphs
Backtracking
BFS
Arrays DFS
Topological Sort
Dijkstra
Prefix Sum
Union Find
Sliding Window
Minimum Spanning Tree
Two Pointers
Kadane's Algorithm
Binary Search on Arrays Recursion & Backtracking
Strings N Queens
Sudoku
Subsets
Pattern Matching
Permutations
Palindrome
Hashing
Greedy Algorithms
Linked List
Dynamic Programming
Singly
Doubly 1D DP
Circular 2D DP
Fast & Slow Pointer Knapsack
LIS
Stack LCS
Matrix DP
Monotonic Stack
Expression Evaluation Tries
Queue Segment Tree (optional)
Circular Queue Bit Manipulation
Deque
Practice
Hashing
Solve 300–500 DSA problems on
HashMap platforms like LeetCode or Codeforces.
HashSet
Frequency Maps
Trees Phase 3: Database (2–3
Binary Tree
BST
weeks)
AVL (concept)
SQL REST API
Validation
Logging
CRUD
Constraints
Joins Spring Data JPA
Group By
Aggregate Functions Entities
Views Repository
Stored Procedures (basics) JPQL
Indexes Pagination
Transactions Relationships
Normalization
Database:
Spring Security
Authentication
MySQL
Authorization
PostgreSQL
JWT
BCrypt
REST APIs
Phase 4: JDBC
CRUD
JDBC Architecture Exception Handling
Connection Validation
PreparedStatement Swagger/OpenAPI
ResultSet
Batch Processing
Transactions
Testing
JUnit
Mockito
Phase 5: Spring
Framework Phase 6: Microservices
Core Spring REST Communication
Feign Client
IoC API Gateway
Dependency Injection Eureka
Beans Config Server
Bean Lifecycle Docker Basics
Kafka/RabbitMQ (Introduction)
Spring Boot
Spring Boot Basics
Project Structure
Configuration