Top 25 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know

Good knowledge of standard algorithms is equally important as choosing the right data structure. The following is a list of the top 25 algorithms every programmer and computer science student should know.

1. Binary Search Algorithm
2. Breadth First Search (BFS) Algorithm
3. Depth First Search (DFS) Algorithm
4. Merge Sort Algorithm
5. Quicksort Algorithm
6. Kruskal’s Algorithm
7. Floyd Warshall Algorithm
8. Dijkstra’s Algorithm
9. Bellman Ford Algorithm
10. Kadane’s Algorithm
11. Lee Algorithm
12. Flood Fill Algorithm
13. Floyd’s Cycle Detection Algorithm
14. Union Find Algorithm
15. Topological Sort Algorithm
16. KMP Algorithm
17. Insertion Sort Algorithm
18. Selection Sort Algorithm
19. Counting Sort Algorithm
20. Heap Sort Algorithm
21. Kahn’s Topological Sort Algorithm
22. Huffman Coding Compression Algorithm
23. Quick select Algorithm
24. Boyer–Moore Majority Vote Algorithm
25. Euclid’s Algorithm