Core Patterns
Two pointers & sliding window
Lesson 3 of 5
Two patterns that turn nested loops over arrays and strings into a single linear pass.
What you'll learn
- Walk an array with two indices instead of nesting loops
- Maintain a moving window and update its summary incrementally
- Recognize which problems each pattern unlocks
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