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Given    a Binary Search Tree, write a program to print the kth smallest element    without using any static/global variable. You can?t pass the value k to    any function also.
         
What    are the 4 basics of OOP?
         
Define    Data Abstraction. What is its importance?
         
Given    an array of size n. It contains numbers in the range 1 to n. Each number    is present at least once except for 2 numbers. Find the missing numbers.
         
Given    an array of size n. It contains numbers in the range 1 to n. Find the    numbers which aren?t present.
         
Given    a string,find the first un-repeated character in it? Give some test cases
         
You    are given a dictionary of all valid words. You have the following 3    operations permitted on a word: delete a character, insert a character,    replace a character. Now given two words - word1 and word2 - find the    minimum number of steps required to convert word1 to word2. (one operation    counts as 1 step.)
         
Given    a cube of size n*n*n (i.e made up of n^3 smaller cubes), find the number    of smaller cubes on the surface. Extend this to k-dimension.
         
What    is a C array and illustrate the how is it different from a list.
         
What    is the time and space complexities of merge sort and when is it preferred    over quick sort?
         
Write    a function which takes as parameters one regular expression(only ? and *    are the special characters) and a string and returns whether the string    matched the regular expression.
         
Given    n red balls and m blue balls and some containers, how would you distribute    those balls among the containers such that the probability of picking a    red ball is maximized, assuming that the user randomly chooses a container    and then randomly picks a ball from that.
         
Find    the second largest element in an array with minimum no of comparisons and    give the minimum no of comparisons needed on an array of size N to do the    same.
         
Given    an array of size n, containing every element from 1 to n+1, except one.    Find the missing element.
         
How    do you convert a decimal number to its hexa-decimal equivalent.Give a C    code to do the same
         
Explain    polymorphism. Provide an example.
         
Given    an array all of whose elements are positive numbers, find the maximum sum    of a subsequence with the constraint that no 2 numbers in the sequence    should be adjacent in the array. So 3 2 7 10 should return 13 (sum of 3    and 10) or 3 2 5 10 7 should return 15 (sum of 3, 5 and 7)
         
You    are given some denominations of coins in an array (int denom[])and    infinite supply of all of them. Given an amount (int amount), find the    minimum number of coins required to get the exact amount. What is the    method called?
         
Given    an array of size n. It contains numbers in the range 1 to n. Each number    is present at least once except for 1 number. Find the missing number.