Programming & Data Structures
Approximate weightage in recent GATE CSE papers: ~13%
Official syllabus topics
- C programming: pointers, recursion, parameter passing, scope
- Arrays, stacks, queues
- Linked lists
- Trees, binary search trees, binary heaps
- Graphs: representations
How to prepare
Output-prediction questions on pointers and recursion are free marks if you trace carefully. Practice on paper, not in a compiler.