Questions tagged [programming-challenge]
Programming challenges are off-site challenges meant to offer programmers educational experiences while testing their abilities.
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Sum of integers in an interval
Here is my solution to a series of problems in JS fundamentals. I've made it pass but I know this could be more efficient. I'm not looking for anyone to rewrite the code, but just asking what methods ...
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LeetCode 952: Largest Component Size by Common Factor
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you would like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
Given a non-empty array of unique positive integers A, consider the
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XOR Encryption, Decryption, and Cracking in Python
I have recently been working through a number of the Cryptopals Cryptography Challenges to try and improve my knowledge and understanding of both cryptography and Python. As five of the first six ...
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Box and Cox process
The code obtains Box and Cox transformed data. The original data is a Pandas DataFrame and the process uses this DataFrame.
I am trying to speed up the following code. If you can elaborate in faster ...
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LeetCode 126: Word Ladder II
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you would like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
Given two words (begin and <...
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LeetCode 149: Max Points on a Line
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you would like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
Given n points on a 2D plane, ...
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LeetCode 1463: Cherry Pickup II
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you would like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
Given a rows x cols matrix grid ...
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Benchmarking multiple implementations of a Code Kata: queue for the self-checkout tills at the supermarket
I was reading this question:
Why is my function timing out when run with a larger data set?
And although I couldn't quite grasp the OP's implementation and so didn't feel like answering.
I did some ...
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LeetCode 37: Sudoku Solver
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem. If you'd like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
Write a program to solve a Sudoku puzzle by filling the empty cells.
A sudoku ...
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LeetCode 924: Minimize Malware Spread
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you would like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
In a network of nodes, each node i is directly connected to another
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Count unique subsequences
I came across this question in a coding competition (Java-restricted) and I got a time-length-exceeded. I am unable to provide a link as the contest is closed now. Can I know how can I optimise this?
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Analysis of multiple game scores
I am trying to create a list based on some data, but the code I am using is very slow when I run it on large data. So I suspect I am not using all of the Python power for this task. Is there a more ...
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LeetCode 273: Integer to English Words
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you would like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
Convert a non-negative integer to its English words representation.
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LeetCode 639: Decode Ways II
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you would like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
A message containing letters from A-Z is being encoded to numbers
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Find lowest consecutive value
I have created a program where I first set the size of the array and
how many times I will look for consecutive values, then I fill in the
array and finally I insert the consecutive values, it should ...
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LeetCode 862: Shortest Subarray with Sum at Least K
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you would like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
Return the length of the shortest, non-empty, contiguous subarray ...
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CodeWars Deodorant Evaporator
How can I make the solution to this https://www.codewars.com/kata/5506b230a11c0aeab3000c1f/train/fsharp more "functional"?
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LeetCode 894: All Possible Full Binary Trees
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you would like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
A full binary tree is a binary tree where each node has exactly 0 ...
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LeetCode 410: Split Array Largest Sum
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you would like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
Given an array which consists of non-negative integers and an ...
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LeetCode 284: Peeking Iterator
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem. If you'd like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
Given an Iterator class interface with methods: ...
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LeetCode 212: Word Search II
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem. If you'd like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
Given a 2D board and a list of words from the dictionary, find all
words in the ...
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LeetCode 652: Find Duplicate Subtrees
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you have time and would like to review, please do so. Thank you!
Problem
Given a binary tree, return all duplicate subtrees. For each kind ...
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LeetCode 1032: Stream of Characters
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you have time and would like to review, please do so. Thank you!
Problem
Implement the StreamChecker ...
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Project Euler 50: Consecutive prime sum
I just finished solving Project Euler's 50th problem, but it's awfully slow. I'd like to hear your thoughts on my code's efficiency and practices.
Problem Statement
The prime 41, can be written as the ...
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Programming challenge - report fraudulent banking activity times out
How can I optimise this code
there is time out error
Program Challenge:
HackerLand National Bank has a simple policy for warning clients about possible fraudulent account activity. If the amount ...
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C++, sort integers using knowledge of entire vector
I am solving the "Sort" problem on Kattis.
Mirko is a great code breaker. He knows any cipher in the world can be broken by frequency analysis. He has completely the wrong idea what ...
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LeetCode 753: Cracking the Safe
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you have time and would like to review, please do so. Thank you!
Problem
There is a box protected by a password. The password is a sequence ...
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Performance challenge: Box operations (HackerRank) (C, Python)
Recently I've been doing some challenges on HackerRank and came across this one. First, I tried with Python, and then C. Both of my codes failed due to timeout restrictions.
It would be very helpful, ...
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LeetCode 1293: Shortest Path in a Grid with Obstacles Elimination
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you have time and would like to review, please do so.
Problem
Given a m * n grid, where each cell is either 0 (empty) or 1 (obstacle). In ...
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Enhanced Hashmap - Add a number to all keys/values
I had the below problem in a coding test and I got 28/30 tests passes and 2 failed due to a time-out.
Problem You have created a programming language and now you have decided to add ...
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Exercism: determine if a word or phrase is an isogram
The task:
Determine if a word or phrase is an isogram.
An isogram (also known as a "nonpattern word") is a word or phrase without a repeating letter, however spaces and hyphens are allowed ...
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LeetCode 552: Student Attendance Record II
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem copied here. If you have time and would like to review, please do so. Thank you!
Problem
Given a positive integer n, return the number of all possible
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LeetCode 1320: Minimum Distance to Type a Word Using Two Fingers II
I'm posting my Python code for LeetCode's 1320. If you have time and would like to review, please do so.
Problem
You have a keyboard layout as shown above in the XY plane, where each English ...
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LeetCode 1320: Minimum Distance to Type a Word Using Two Fingers I
I'm posting my C++ code for LeetCode's 1320. If you have time and would like to review, please do so. Thank you!
Problem
You have a keyboard layout as shown above in the XY plane, where each English ...
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LeetCode 375: Guess Number Higher or Lower II
I'm posting my C++ code for LeetCode's Guess Number Higher or Lower II. If you have time and would like to review, please do so.
Problem
We are playing the Guess Game. The game is as follows:
I pick ...
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LeetCode 200: Number of Islands
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem. If you'd like to review, please do so. Thank you for your time!
Problem
Given a 2d grid map of '1's (land) and '0's (water), count the number
of islands. ...
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“Jedi's riddle” challenge
The challenge can be found here.
In short we have a recursive function, and we need to find when \$z_i\$ is equal to one.
$$
\begin{align}
z_1 &= 1\\
z_i &= z_{i-1} * a\ \%\ n\\
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LeetCode 146: LRU Cache III
I'm posting my Java code for LeetCode's LRU Cache. If you have time and would like to review, please do so. Thank you!
Problem
Design and implement a data structure for Least Recently Used (LRU) ...
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LeetCode 146: LRU Cache II
I'm posting my code for a LeetCode problem. If you'd like to review, please do so.
Problem
Design and implement a data structure for Least Recently Used (LRU) cache. It should support the following ...
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LeetCode 146: LRU Cache I
I'm posting my C++ code for LeetCode's LRU Cache. If you have time and would like to review, please do so. Thank you!
Problem
Design and implement a data structure for Least Recently Used (LRU) cache....
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Lispy code? Palindrome of product
My answer to Project Euler problem 4 (largest palindrome of product of two 3-digit numbers) is below.
Please suggest improvements, style changes, indentation, commenting, naming, ...
And nitpicks are ...
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LeetCode 1044: Longest Duplicate Substring
I'm posting my C++ code for LeetCode's Longest Duplicate Substring. If you have time and would like to review, please do so. Thank you!
Problem
Given a string S, consider all duplicated substrings: (...
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LeetCode 1146: Snapshot Array
I'm posting my C++ code for LeetCode's Snapshot Array. If you have time and would like to review, please do so. Thank you!
Problem
Implement a SnapshotArray that supports the following interface:
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LeetCode 399: Evaluate Division
I'm posting my C++ code for LeetCode's Evaluate Division. If you have time and would like to review, please do so. Thank you!
Problem
Equations are given in the format A / B = k, where A and B are
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LeetCode 809: Expressive Words
I'm posting my C++ code for LeetCode's Expressive Words. If you have time and would like to review, please do so. Thank you!
Sometimes people repeat letters to represent extra feeling, such as
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Alphabet Rangoli Challenge
The question is about printing alphabets in a rangoli pattern of size/dimension input by the user.
Example:
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ReadAsync: Continuously reads stream and spits out Packets and Fill incomplete Packets
I have difficulties when sometimes a game client sends a list of packet in the same buffer, where it is split before processing. The biggest problem is when any packets don't come complete. For ...
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Finding all factors and prime factors of a number
I am working on the Project Euler, number 3 project (finding the largest prime factor of 600851475143), but I wanted to take it a step further and write something that will list all factors and prime ...
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LeetCode 218: The Skyline Problem II
Here I'm posting my Java code for the skyline problem. If you have time and would like to review, please do so, I'd appreciate that.
Problem
A city's skyline is the outer contour of the silhouette ...
