Leetcode and data structures

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DLOA42

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DLOA42
Sep 16, 2021 12 Comments

For people that saying "I studied/coded basic data structures and it was enough or passed the interviews", can you please explain me how just understanding/studied/implementing a heap can help you with solving the "find the median from a data stream" problem? #leetcode

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  • Cisco
    Yolok

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    Yolok
    No one can solve it seeing first time in the interview, relax
    Sep 16, 2021 7
  • The reason behind learning/understanding data structures is like learning characters/words in a language so that you could express yourself in a written language to others without mistakes. Knowing data structures can only take you so far, one should be able to compose/orchestrate them properly to build higher order data structures/functionality. Knowing words/vocabulary is necessary but not sufficient to acquire writing skills. Similarly , data structures which are fundamental building blocks are necessary but not sufficient to master programming.
    Sep 16, 2021 0
  • Amazon
    rigbyk

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    rigbyk
    I think your problem is that you’re using a stack for this problem
    Sep 16, 2021 1
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      DLOA42

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      OP
      you are right, I meant heap
      Sep 16, 2021
  • Coinbase / IT
    monkahmm

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     monkahmm
    >> learn git
    >> git gud
    Ez
    Sep 16, 2021 0