BACKEND + DSA DAILY ROUTINE (3–6 Months Job-Ready Plan)
1. DSA in C++ — 1 hour/day
- Mon: Arrays + Strings
- Tue: HashMap/Set
- Wed: Sliding Window + Two Pointer
- Thu: LinkedList, Stack, Queue
- Fri: Trees + BST
- Sat: Graph + BFS/DFS
- Sun: Dynamic Programming (1–2 problems)
Goal: 1–2 problems daily.
2. Java Basics — 45 minutes/day (First 2–3 weeks)
- OOP, Classes & Objects
- Inheritance, Polymorphism
- Collections (ArrayList, HashMap, HashSet)
- Exceptions
- Streams & Lambdas
- File I/O
- JDBC basics
3. Spring Boot — 1.5 hours/day
Weekly Breakdown:
- Week 1: Basics + Controllers
- Week 2: JPA + MySQL + Repository
- Week 3: Service Layer + CRUD
- Week 4: Validation + Exception Handling
- Week 5: JWT Authentication
- Week 6: Pagination + Filtering + File Upload
- Week 7: Logging + Lombok
- Week 8: Project Work
4. Project Building — 30 minutes/day
Projects:
- Authentication System (JWT)
- Blog API
- E-commerce Backend
Daily:
- Build features
- Test with Postman
- Push code to GitHub
5. Sunday Routine — 1 hour
- Push weekly updates to GitHub
- Improve README
- Document APIs
- Update Resume (monthly)
Outcome After 3–6 Months:
✔ Strong DSA in C++
✔ Solid Java Foundation
✔ Spring Boot Knowledge
✔ 2–3 Real Backend Projects
✔ GitHub Portfolio
✔ Job-ready Skills