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Reverse a sublist of a singly-linked master list in constant space and maximum of one pass (Java)
So I found this funky programming challenge somewhere on Quora. The idea is to take the head of a singly-linked list, and reverse a specific sublist. The requirements are:
runs in constant space,
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Ordered squares of an ordered integer array
I had this question in an interview recently.
Given a sorted array of integers, return a list of those integers squared, with the squares sorted. So given an array of these numbers:
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String combinations of 0 and 1
I was asked this question in an interview:
Given a string s consisting of 0, 1 and ...
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Leeetcode - Best time to buy and sell stock to get maximum profit
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Say you have an array for which the ith element is the price of a
given stock on day i.
If you were only permitted to complete at most one transaction (i.e.,
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Implement Queue using fixed size array
I came across below interview question and I am working on it:
Build a queue class with the enqueue and dequeue methods. The queue
can store an UNLIMITED number of elements but you are limited to
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Trip planning algorithm
I was presented with an interview question described as follows:
Receiving an int[] A of cities, where each A[i] has an appeal ...
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Counting subtrees where all nodes have the same value
A unival tree (which stands for "universal value") is a tree where all
nodes under it have the same value.
Given the root to a binary tree, count the number of unival subtrees.
For example,...
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Family Relationship Tree
Developer Assignment - Family And Relations
Going through the old stuff in his attic, Indiana comes across a chart
which looks like a family tree of multiple generations which shows his
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Solving a multi variable polynomial
For this equation, I need to count possible solutions:
$$ a + b^2 + c^3 + d^4 \le S $$
$$0\le a,b,c,d \le S$$
I tried the following approach:
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Find the highest result between two elements in an array using their values and indices
I got a programming question on an interview where performance was the focus. I couldnt come up with a better solution than the one below which I think has a time complexity of O(n^2 + n) and scored ...
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Find kth smallest element in binary search tree
I was faced with below interview question today and I came up with below solution but somehow interviewer was not happy. I am not sure why..
Given a binary search tree, find the kth smallest element ...
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Map Character to Characters Most Frequently Found With it (in list of strings)
For an interview, I was tasked with writing a program that consumes a list of strings, and produces a mapping between every character in the list, and the characters found most frequently with it (let'...
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String Compression
Implement a method to perform basic string compression using the counts
of repeated characters.
For example, the string "aabcccccaaa" would become "a2b1c5a3". If the
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Find the shortest path between two points in a 2D matrix with obstacles
I need to find shortest path between two points in a grid given an obstacles..
Given a 2 dimensional matrix where some of the elements are filled
with 1 and rest of the elements are filled. Here X ...
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