I continued my Data Structures and Algorithms study track today. I continued reading through the “Arrays and Strings” chapter of the book, “Cracking the Coding Interview” (CTCI) by Gayle Laakmann McDowell.
The final section of the chapter covers some sample questions. The questions were very short and generic but highlight the types of questions that can be asked in a coding interview while working with Arrays and Strings. Additionally, it also helps to give me hints on when I should be using arrays / arraylists / strings for a coding problem. I am not going to try solving any of the problems since my goal is exposure for this read through. However, once I come back to this section I will be solving and writing notes on each question so that I have something personal to refer back to and use as review material if I ever forget something.
TLDR;
Okay, so here are the highlights of what I did:
- Data Structures and Algorithms (DSA) -> Continued reading through the book “Cracking the Coding Interview” by Gayle Laakmann McDowell again. Started reading through the sample interview questions. This is probably the part I will be coming back to most often.
Goal For Round 8 of the #100DaysofCode Challenge
This is my eighth round of the “#100daysofcode” challenge. I will be continuing my work from round five, six, and seven into round eight. I was working through the book “Cracking the Coding Interview” by Gayle Laakmann McDowell. My goal was to become more familiar with algorithms and data structures. This goal was derived from my goal to better understand operating systems and key programs that I use in the terminal regularly e.g. Git. This goal was in turn derived from my desire to better understand the fundamental tools used for coding outside of popular GUIs. This in turn was derived from my desire to be a better back-end developer.
I am currently putting a pause on the algorithm work to build some backend/full stack projects. I primarily want to improve my skills with the back-end from an implementation perspective. I have improved tremendously in terminal and CLI skills but I lost focus due to how abstract the algorithm concepts got. I wanted to work on things that were more tangible until I can get to a position where I could directly benefit from improving my algorithm skills and theoretical knowledge. So that’s the focus right now. Build my backend skills and prove my full stack capabilities by building some dope projects.
Again, I still have no idea if my path is correct but I am walking down this road anyways. Worst case scenario I learn a whole bunch of stuff that will help me out on my own personal projects. Best case scenario I actually become one of those unicorn developers that go on to start a billion dollar company… You never know LOL.