🧠 ThinkDSA – Think Before You Code

A modern, AI-powered platform that helps DSA learners shift from just solving to deep understanding. Track, reflect, and grow your problem-solving mindset — across any platform.

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📑 Table of Contents

• 📚 About ThinkDSA
• 🧩 Why Build This?
• ✨ Features
• 🛠️ Tech Stack
• 🚀 Getting Started
• 💡 Design Philosophy
• 🌱 Roadmap
• 🤝 Contributing
• ❤️ Our Contributors
• ⭐ Show Your Support
• 🍴 Forkers
• 📬 Connect With Me

📚 About ThinkDSA

ThinkDSA is a minimalist, developer-first tool built to support thoughtful learning. Rather than racing for green ticks, we help learners:

• 🧠 Reflect before solving with pseudocode-first thinking
• 🔗 Organize problems from LeetCode, GFG, etc.
• 🤖 Get gentle AI feedback using Gemini API
• 📈 Track topics, progress, and mindset over time

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🧩 Why Build This?

There are hundreds of coding platforms, but:

• Most learners feel overwhelmed by scattered resources.
• People often forget what they’ve already done.
• Copying answers becomes a crutch, not a learning tool.
• Feedback on "how to think better" is missing.

ThinkDSA solves these by encouraging real thinking, personal tracking, and incremental learning.

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✨ Features

• 📋 Organize problems by custom topics
• 🔍 Smart scraping for metadata & question details
• 🧑‍🏫 Pseudocode editor with AI-driven iterative feedback
• 🧠 AI suggestions to deepen problem understanding
• 🖼️ Split-panel layout for focused thinking
• 🌓 Light and dark themes, minimal UI
• 🔐 Auth via Firebase or Auth0

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🛠️ Tech Stack

Layer	Tech
Frontend	React + Tailwind CSS
Backend	--------(TO BE MADE)--------------
Database	--------(TO BE MADE)--------------
Auth	--------(TO BE MADE)--------------
AI Layer	Gemini API
Deployment	Vercel / Netlify / Render

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🚀 Getting Started

git clone https://github.com/itsaryanchauhan/ThinkDSA
cd ThinkDSA
npm install

Then run:

npm run dev

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💡 Design Philosophy

• 🧼 Minimalist, focused UI (inspired by Linear, Supabase)
• 🖥️ Split-pane layouts for better context
• 📏 Local scroll containers (avoid full-page scrolls)
• 🌓 Respect user/system themes
• 🧠 Feedback as guidance — never full solutions

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🌱 Roadmap

• Social sharing of curated problem lists
• Consistency-based leaderboard
• AI-adjustable problem difficulty
• Chrome extension for on-the-fly clipping
• Markdown export for notes/pseudocode

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🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributors!

# Step 1: Fork the repo
# Step 2: Create a branch `feature/your-feature`
# Step 3: Push & raise a PR 🚀

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❤️ Our Contributors

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⭐ Show Your Support

If you found this project helpful, please consider giving it a ⭐️

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🍴 Forkers

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📬 Connect With Me

• 💼 LinkedIn
• 💻 GitHub

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📄 License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.