Posts Tagged “java”
Course Schedule Leetcode Solution
There are a total of numCourses courses you have to take, labeled from 0 to numCourses - 1. You are given an array prerequisites where prerequisites[i] = [ai, bi] indicates that you must take course bi first if you want to take course ai...
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Sat 18 Dec 2021
Remove-all-adjacent-duplicates-in-string-ii Solution
You are given a string s and an integer k, a k duplicate removal consists of choosing k adjacent and equal letters from s and removing them, causing the left and the right side of the deleted substring to concatenate together...
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Wed 08 Dec 2021
Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree
Questions involving the binary tree data structure are very popular in tech interviews, and can be challenging and varied! A binary tree is a data structure consisting of a collection of nodes (starting at a root node), where each node consists of a value (data), together with a directed edges to at most two nodes (the “left child” and “right child”), with the additional conditions that no two edges point to the same node and no edge points to the root. I recently solved an interesting problem on binary tree...
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Thu 04 Nov 2021
Ternary String solution Codeforces - 1354B
Ternary string is an interesting problem that could be solved using two pointers techniques. It’s a convenient way to keep track of multiple indices. This helps in making decisions based on two values...
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Tue 02 Nov 2021
Coin Change solution leetcode
It’s one of the most popular questions on leetcode that seems very easy at first. Coin change is a classic dynamic programming problem. I will proceed with an obvious (albeit wrong) solution and subsequently proceed to an efficient correct solution...
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Sun 12 Sep 2021
Maximum Subarray
There’s an interesting problem I recently solved on leetcode based on dynamic programming. My Github repository contains list of all problems that I have solved. I often start with a brute force approach without fretting about time complexity. Later I try to improve my algorithm for a better efficient solution...
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Sun 10 Nov 2019
Getting started with Graph Part 1
Graph are data structures made of vertices & edges. There are lots of interesting problems that can be solved using graphs. Part 1 covers the basic for creating a template for graph data structure...
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Sat 07 Sep 2019
Recursively sort a array
I recently came across a simple telephonic interview problem. The problem was to sort an array recursively. But even numbers need to be placed before odd numbers. At first glance it was obvious that it was a simple case of implementation of merge sort...
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Tue 13 Nov 2018
Three Sum Problem Leetcode Solution
Given an array nums of n integers, are there elements a, b, c in nums such that a + b + c = 0? Find all unique triplets in the array which gives the sum of zero...
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