****GROKKING NOTES**** I liked the way Grokking the coding interview organized problems into learnable patterns. However, the course is expensive and the majority of the time the problems are copy-pasted from leetcode. As the explanations on leetcode are usually just as good, the course really boils down to being a glorified curated list of leetcode problems. So below I made a list of leetcode problems that are as close to grokking problems as possible. 1. Pattern: Sliding Window https://leetcode.com/problems/maximum-subarray/ # Close enough https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-size-subarray-sum/ https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-substring-with-at-most-k-distinct-characters/ https://leetcode.com/problems/fruit-into-baskets/ https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-substring-without-repeating-characters/ https://leetcode.com/problems/longest-repeating-character-replacement/ https://leetcode.com/problems/max-consecutive-ones-iii/ https://leetcode.com/problems/permutation-in-string/ https://leetcode.com/problems/find-all-anagrams-in-a-string/ https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-window-substring/ https://leetcode.com/problems/substring-with-concatenation-of-all-words/ 2. Pattern: Two Pointers https://leetcode.com/problems/two-sum/ https://leetcode.com/problems/remove-duplicates-from-sorted-array/ https://leetcode.com/problems/squares-of-a-sorted-array/ https://leetcode.com/problems/3sum/ https://leetcode.com/problems/3sum-closest/ https://leetcode.com/problems/3sum-smaller/ https://leetcode.com/problems/subarray-product-less-than-k/ https://leetcode.com/problems/sort-colors/ https://leetcode.com/problems/4sum/ https://leetcode.com/problems/backspace-string-compare/ https://leetcode.com/problems/shortest-unsorted-continuous-subarray/ 3. Pattern: Fast & Slow pointers https://leetcode.com/problems/linked-list-cycle/ https://leetcode.com/problems/linked-list-cycle-ii/ https://leetcode.com/problems/happy-number/ https://leetcode.com/problems/middle-of-the-linked-list/ https://leetcode.com/problems/palindrome-linked-list/ https://leetcode.com/problems/reorder-list/ https://leetcode.com/problems/circular-array-loop/ 4. Pattern: Merge Intervals https://leetcode.com/problems/merge-intervals/ https://leetcode.com/problems/insert-interval/ https://leetcode.com/problems/interval-list-intersections/ https://leetcode.com/problems/meeting-rooms-ii/ # Could not find equivalent. Given a list of intervals with values, find the peak sum (i.e. if intervals are overlapping, sum their values) https://leetcode.com/problems/employee-free-time/ 5. Pattern: Cyclic Sort # Couldn't find equivalent for the first question. The second question below encompasses the first one though. # See https://leetcode.com/problems/missing-number/discuss/859510/C%2B%2B-O(N)-O(1)-using-Cyclic-Sort for how # grokking the coding interview approached these problems. # It uses the fact that we can sort the array in O(n) without comparison operators https://leetcode.com/problems/missing-number/ https://leetcode.com/problems/find-all-numbers-disappeared-in-an-array/ https://leetcode.com/problems/find-all-duplicates-in-an-array/ combine https://leetcode.com/problems/find-the-duplicate-number/ and https://leetcode.com/problems/missing-number/ https://leetcode.com/problems/first-missing-positive/ https://leetcode.com/problems/kth-missing-positive-number/ 6. Pattern: In-place Reversal of a LinkedList https://leetcode.com/problems/reverse-linked-list/ https://leetcode.com/problems/reverse-linked-list-ii/ https://leetcode.com/problems/reverse-nodes-in-k-group/ # Next question is the same, but alternate each subgroup https://leetcode.com/problems/rotate-list/ 7. Pattern: Tree Breadth First Search https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-level-order-traversal/ https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-level-order-traversal-ii/ https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-zigzag-level-order-traversal/ https://leetcode.com/problems/minimum-depth-of-binary-tree/ https://leetcode.com/problems/inorder-successor-in-bst/ # Close, not exact https://leetcode.com/problems/populating-next-right-pointers-in-each-node/ # Close, grokk assumes non-perfect tree # Next question is the same, but connect end nodes to the next level instead of null https://leetcode.com/problems/binary-tree-right-side-view/ 8. Pattern: Tree Depth First Search 9. Pattern: Two Heaps 10. Pattern: Subsets 11. Pattern: Modified Binary Search 12. Pattern: Bitwise XOR 13. Pattern: Top 'K' elements 14. Pattern: K-way merge 15. Pattern: 0/1 Knapsack 16. Pattern: Topological Sort 17. https://leetcode.com/problems/kth-largest-element-in-an-array/