Finished going through the article on Sets. I started going through an article on sequences and it’s finally making a lot more sense. One thing about being relatively “self-taught” is that you often do not know what you do not know. I can now say that a valuable prerequisite course to take prior to studying algorithms and data structures is higher level calculus and algebra. I don’t know exactly which ones teach sequences and deriving formulas but it’s extremely useful.

TLDR;

Okay, so here are the highlights of what I did:

• Still reading through the book “Cracking the Coding Interview” by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. I am still stuck on example fourteen. I have been learning / reviewing the topic of sequences using a MathisFun article and the special sequences section has really helped me. I previously was unfamiliar with most of these sequences. They have been mentioned before in the book, well… at the “Geometric Sequence” has for sure. I brushed it off but now that it’s been mentioned again alongside the “Fibonacci Sequence” I can’t ignore it anymore. I still have a lot more work to do but step by step I’m making progress.

Conclusion

That’s all for today. If you are interested in the MIT course you can check out the video lecture I’m currently going through. The lecture is helpful but isn’t sufficient by itself. Anyways, until next time PEACE!