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The Intuitive Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms
This is not a freaking textbook.
No confusing academic jargon. No long lists of properties to memorize. No proofs. Because that stuff doesn’t help you actually get it.
Here’s what Learning what to picture in your head when you think of a dynamic array or a hash map. Learning how to think in algorithms. That’s what this guide is focused on— giving you a visual, intuitive sense for how data structures and algorithms actually work.
So if you’ve got a big coding interview coming up, or you never learned data structures and algorithms in school, or you did but you’re kinda hazy on how some of this stuff fits together... This guide will fill in the gaps in your knowledge and make you say, "Oooh, that’s how that works."
We’ll walk you through it all, step by step. Starting from the beginning.
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"I wish I had known about this website back when I was in algorithms class in college. This made me finally understand concepts that had eluded me for years."
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No confusing academic jargon. No long lists of properties to memorize. No proofs. Because that stuff doesn’t help you actually get it.
Here’s what Learning what to picture in your head when you think of a dynamic array or a hash map. Learning how to think in algorithms. That’s what this guide is focused on— giving you a visual, intuitive sense for how data structures and algorithms actually work.
So if you’ve got a big coding interview coming up, or you never learned data structures and algorithms in school, or you did but you’re kinda hazy on how some of this stuff fits together... This guide will fill in the gaps in your knowledge and make you say, "Oooh, that’s how that works."
We’ll walk you through it all, step by step. Starting from the beginning.
This illustrated introduction to algorithms is brought to you by Interview Cake, the best way to prepare for your technical coding interviews. Here's what some of our users have to
"It feels very surreal that I did well on a Google interview. Your website taught me more about algorithms (and in a way that I retained the information) than any boring college class. Thank you *so much* for making Computer Science fun again."
— Rabeea (got the job at Google)
"I wish I had known about this website back when I was in algorithms class in college. This made me finally understand concepts that had eluded me for years."
— Luna (got the job at Google)
"They just called and told me I passed! The interviewer was very impressed by my algorithms and data structures knowledge and it was all thanks to your website."
— Maria (got the job at Amazon)
117 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 9, 2018
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June 13, 2024
Big O, Array, String and Hast-table are explored through first principles in plain English. Self taught developers and anyone without a CS major would gain the most from the content. Neither problems nor problem solving approaches are discussed.
Readers will be left with a solid foundation of critical data structure nothing more.
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Readers will be left with a solid foundation of critical data structure nothing more.
All the contents of the book and more of it can be found here https://www.interviewcake.com/table-o...
August 20, 2020
Excellently simplified!
The author did a great job of simplifying the main aspects of data structures. Selecting the best DS seems easier and clearer for me since I read this book.
The author did a great job of simplifying the main aspects of data structures. Selecting the best DS seems easier and clearer for me since I read this book.
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