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Roman Glushko
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Learn Heaps via Visualizations

Heaps (or priority queues) are tree-based data structure that makes it fast to track order of retrieving priority items 🛠

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I have reviewed how heaps work in depth in the following blog post ⬇️

https://www.romaglushko.com/blog/heapify/

The article contains a lot of visualizations and could be a good way to understand how heaps work, especially for beginners. Also, heap is a popular topic on coding interviews.

Hope it'll be helpful 🙌

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