Any advice for those who are self taught and wants to become a leetcode expert?
Any specific courses/books in order?
Right now im going through a bunch of codewars to become better at python and problem solving.
After, ill go through Princetons algos coursera part 1 & 2,
then Algorithm Design Manual by Steven Skiena (book and youtube course),
then Leetcode + CTCI and EPI
TC: 48k
YOE: less than a year
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It is slow to ramp up but eventually you'll solve multiple problems a day easily.
If you have to solve 600+ to get multiple offers, you might have an issue with understanding the fundamentals
Robert Sedgwick's Algorithms part 1 and 2
Lots of Leetcode. Start at easy, and do some harder ones. Work your way up.
Designing data intensive algorithms
Of course, I had 6 years of professional experience before I joined Amazon
TC $220k
I tried to solve it through sheer will power. If it took me 8 hours to solve a problem, then that's what it took. You start developing problem solving patterns, and it gets easier.
Not sure if that's the best approach though. Works for me
They are the best material.
For a sample, read Topcoder article on Binary Search.
Let me know if you did not feel the goosebumps.
The dynamic programming and graphs portion is really well explained in that book and has a lot of examples.