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| 01. Arrays and strings | ||
| 02. Linked lists | ||
| 03. Stacks and queues | ||
| 04. Trees and graphs | ||
| 05. Bit manipulation | ||
| 06. Math and logic puzzles | ||
| 07. Object-Oriented design | ||
| 08. Recursion | ||
| 09. System design and scalability | ||
| 10. Sorting and searching | ||
| 11. Testing | ||
| 12. C++ | ||
| 13. Java | ||
| 14. Databases | ||
| 15. Threads and locks | ||
| 16. Moderate problems | ||
| 17. Hard problems | ||
| 18. Advanced topics | ||
| Missing CS semester | ||
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README.md
Cracking the coding interview exercises and notes
If you can't afford to buy the book, you can find a free pdf here (last updated on 2020.10.09).
Introduction
- Big O
- Technical questions
Chapter 1 Arrays and strings
- check unique characters
- check if permutation
- replace character by substring
- Levenshtein distance
- String compression
- Matrix rotation
- String rotation
- Hash tables (chapter 7)
- Magic index (chapter 8)
- Search in sorted matrix (chapter 10)
Chapter 2 Linked lists
- Remove duplicates
- Return kth to last
- Delete middle node
- Partition list
- Sum lists
- Check if palindrome
- Insert node at beginning
- Insert node at end
- Reverse list, single and double linked
- List intersection
- Loop detection
Chapter 3 Stacks and queues
- 3 stacks in array
- Min function in stack
- List of stacks
- Queue via stack
- Sort stack
- Animal shelter (enqueue and dequeue with ordering)
Chapter 4 Trees and graphs
- Find route between nodes in graph
- Create minimal binary search tree from array
- Create a linked list for each depth in the tree
Chapter 5 Bit manipulation
- Insert bit
- Binary to string
- Flip bit to create longest sequence of 1s
- (( n & (n-1)) == 0). n=?
- How many different bits do two numbers have. 11001 vs. 11010 = 2. Levenstein distance
Chapter 6 Math and logic puzzles
- Prime numbers
Chapter 7 Object-oriented design
- Call center
- Parking lot
- Chat server
- Hash tables
Chapter 8 Recursion
- Triple step
- Robot in grid
- Magic index (index such that A[i] = 1)
- Power set
- Permutations of string with unique characters
- Permutations of string with duplicate characters
Chapter 9 System design and scalability
- Stock data
- Social network
- Web crawler
- Duplicate URLs
- Cache
- Sales rank
- Personal finance manager
Chapter 10 Sorting and searching
- Sorted merge
- Anagrams
- Search in rotated array
- Sorted search, no size
- Sorted matrix search
- Sparse search
- Sort big file
- Missing int
- Find duplicates
- Sorted matrix search
- Rank for stream
Chapter 11 Testing
- Mistake
- Random crashes
- Chess test
- Test a pen
- Test an ATM
Chapter 16 Moderate problems
- Write an integer in english
- Contiguous sequence or Maximum subarray
- Least Recently Used cache
Chapter 18 Advanced topics
- Hash table collision resolution
- Rabin-Karp substring search