When you started out, how often did you have to look at the solution before being able to solve the problems yourself (easy and medium ones)?
None for easy/med. Hard ones are just people jerking off to themselves.
Lol 😂 I like how we share the same hatred for hards.
I have always learned things by working backwards. Especially in math, I would go to the back of the textbook to see the answer, and work backwards until I understood it. In the end, if you aren't diligent enough to learn the "why" and "how" behind the solution, the only person you are hurting is yourself. Depends on the type of person if peeking first works best.
Did this help you to solve LC hard problems without help most of the time?
It did. I'm only 15 in but I have one one hard and I now understand it front to back, where I could whiteboard a problem similar to it line by line. Took me about a week of straight studying for one hard, but I am proud.
Not much, but only bc I was already familiar with the concepts. I used LC for finding new jobs as an industry veteran. I would’ve had to peek more as a student studying for my first internship interviews. The percentage depends a lot on the situation
On a different note, how the hell is this one labeled "easy"?! https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-subarray/solution/
Yeah, that's bullshit. It's easy if you've already seen it.
It's more a easy/medium. They had to put it somewhere
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Almost all the time. Don’t worry, it’s a marathon, not a sprint, will take some time but you’ll get there.
Yup 👍
Did you eventually learn to solve hard problems most of the time by yourself?