namikaze:
no any language should do, just share a link to any online code editor so it's testable.

Sleekcode:
Must this be in python?

Tobedated:
Well if someone is studying JavaScript and want to learn dsa he should check out codevolution on YouTube the guy is amazing teaches you all the basics you'll need


If you want to prepare for interview

Then I'll recommend Blind75 it's the holy grail of leetcode you'll find it and solutions at neetcode YouTube channel or neetcode.io

That's my own 5cent I have to offer good luck to all of us

def running_median(stream):
  # Fill this in.
running_median([2, 1, 4, 7, 2, 0, 5])
# 2 1.5 2 3.0 2 2.0 2

TastyFriedPussy:
just open mount wahhh dey vomit rubbish.

AdetayoS:
Good evening Qtguru, this is completely unrelated. I read your diary and saw your post on giving out some stuffs. I am particularly Interested in the laptop, being trying to safe to get one but things keep coming up depleting my account and price keep going up. incase you can't find the owners, please remember me in your kingdom. I don't mind sending what I have. Thanks

Sulele04:
Hello Qtguru, please if you have any spare laptop please consider me.

My laptop has packed up, and I will be resuming second semester where we will do python coding.

Thanks.

tollyboy5:
I no get any ego to show here. I'm still struggling with understanding design patterns.

I understand design patterns are how code are structured to solve problems good.

Qtguru when does algorithm comes in.

qtguru:


In my experience it's when performance is key, a function that takes 5 secs to go through all items in array might prob take more time, when going through 1 million items, so Algo and DS comes in that context, so u can know your order of growth and best algo to run at optimal time.

namikaze:

True, one time I had to optimised a poorly implemented delete endpoint, the bottleneck was simply the way the previous dev handled the array and database calls, average response time lowered from 10s to 1s.

truthCoder2:

10 seconds?
Many servers would have timed out by then.

namikaze:
found this interesting problem;

Given a sorted list of numbers, return a list of strings that
represent all of the consecutive numbers.
Example:
Input: [0, 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 9, 9, 10, 11, 15]
Output: ['0->2', '5->5', '7->11', '15->15']
Assume that all numbers will be greater than or equal to 0, and
each element can repeat.

let's see what you guys come up with

truthCoder2:

tosinhtml:
How far Qtguru, just seeing yout post on: How would I survive in the future in this industry ?? How do I re-align my professional career that makes me attractive in the future ?

For me, there are so many methods to surviving and no one way is best.

- Becoming a well rounded CTO / Co-founder is one way to escape the hustle and bustle of tech industry in the long run.

- One way is by working for a top 5 companies with huge profits like Apple, Google & Microsoft, then grow gradually in ranks as Engineering Manager for 10 - 30 years. Apple is very stable, therefore you are in safe hands.

- A common thing is Devs moving to Staff Engineers at a medium-size tech company and stay for 5 - 15 years, which they could still get fired like Twitter employees anytime investor cuts funding. Chris Banes for example is a top Engineer at Google for 9 years who left his comfort zone to Twitter & now fired, he is now back to the job market hustling again.

- Another cool thing is moving from Dev to Product Management with the wealth of experience to a medium-size company and forget about the stress of development for life.

qtguru:


I like the Product Management path. Thanks I fit still do co-founder for background.

qtguru:
Thanks to someone pained, it's not a bad idea to have a section where anyone can discuss Algo and DSA

1. There should be no egos here TastyFriedPussy aka sqlPain
2. Recommendation of Algo book
3. Encourage Study groups among people
4. Encourage implementation of Algo in a different language or performance tricks

KrazyDave16:
Book recommendation
Mostly pseudocode (implement in any lang you comfy with)

https://mega.nz/file/0ldUlCyQ
key: rjpHFIhD7IlPQNGx-HxeyWkgL2oFKhNqPRyMMHwPPkk

MadarasBlade:


Please don't waste your time reading this book, unless you know how to read and write maths proofs. It isn't for everyone.

namikaze:

Agree, it's too theoretical