leetcode

A collection of all my data structures and algorithms practice as of July 2024. This is in preparation for my first full-time employment opportunities after having graduated with a bachelor's degree.

Grind 75

I've chosen to use the Grind 75 problem set from the Tech Interview Handbook. In my opinion, it is a good place to start practicing DSA questions. After doing these, I will select miscellaneous or domain-specific questions to study.

Nice Things

Spinup

In the Grind75/ directory, there is a brief script called spinup that sets up a few relevant files for a small, self-contained C++ program and a small self-contained Python3 program. Usage looks something like

. spinup 1 TwoSum

and results in the following file structure.

1-TwoSum/
|-- cpp
|   |-- TwoSum.cpp
|   |-- TwoSum.h
|   |-- makefile
|   `-- test.cpp
`-- python
    `-- TwoSum.py

The script also creates a .ycm_extra_conf in the cpp/ directory for adding custom flags for the vim plugin YouCompleteMe and a vim session for the cpp/ directory.

Utility

In the Grind75/ directory, I've created a Utility directory to which I can add common functions and data structures as I go to reduce code duplication. The makefile is setup with some variables with which C++ programs can be properly compiled, and the Python script contains a call to sys.path.append including the appropriate directory.