Guys, it’s killing me. Thought I had an Easy problem down pat, two days later poof forgot everything and back to being a noob. A good exercise in humility. There’s no way around it right?
Just thank Leetcode for aggregating all problems and providing a FREE resourceful platform. Imagine the days without leetcode, people were only relying on CTCI, with pen and paper
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There is a way around it: do enough so that you get the patterns down eventually, instead of giving up prematurely.
It seems kinda impossible right now. Like I thought I knew Best Time to Sell Stock and three days later it’s like back to square one lol. Is that normal?
Lol best time to buy stock is one of the worst ones I think, and I still don't have the courage to tackle the hard versions even after doing 1000+ LC. So at least that seems normal.
Forget?! It's math and logic. How can you forget it if you understood it well in the first place? If you think you're "forgetting" the solution, then you didn't solve it in the first place, you simply memorized it, which is not what you need to do. Try to understand the concept and reasoning behind it. i.e. why wasn't it solved in a different way?
I get what you’re saying. How do I know after an hour with a problem if I’ve really understood it or if I’ve just memorised it?
Why after an hour? Your memory is still fresh after an hour and can easily remember. When seeing the solution, try to come up with other solutions, try to figure out what would have gone wrong with your original proposal if you followed it. This way you develop critical thinking.
Man, it evaluates your code, you even have solutions and explanations and tons of problems are collected at one place; it can't get easier than that. Just keep putting in the work and don't give up.
Yeah that’s right. I won’t give up.
I found that drawing out approaches on whiteboard helps me “get” why it works. Like others have said, you shouldn’t strive to memorize the solution but the approach to get there
Got it. Will do that. It’s hard not to memorise though; gotta resist that.
Firecode is a bit noobish but one thing I liked about it was that every few questions it gets you to re-do an old one which helps memory
Hmm, maybe I’ll try that. Gotta get out of data science somehow lol