Hey folks, Andrei and Mircea here. AlgoCademy has been running steadily now for 2 years, and we recently celebrated our birthday. Since launch, we’ve been working hard to make AlgoCademy better than ever, making it one of the best and most reliable ways to learn to code, and to supercharge your path to becoming not […]
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Choosing the right programming language for your interview
You recently started coding in Python or JavaScript and you realize it’s a way better choice for your upcoming coding interview. But is it really? Is it the best choice for you? You can easily fall into the trap of thinking you know how to code in a new language, but you might not realize […]
Continue ReadingWhat to do when you freeze during a coding interview
Yes, this happens to everybody. You have prepared hard for the final day in which you should be crushing it! Those 200+ questions solved lately are definitely going to pay off! And they do not! You receive a problem which has nothing to do with the ones you have solved before. Or at least that’s […]
Continue Reading10 reasons why you keep failing coding interviews
Have you ever looked at the source code that people write in the comments on platforms like LeetCode? You will soon realize that only knowing how to write code that passes all test cases is not enough to get your dream job! Here’s a list of things the interviewer is assessing you on: Can solve […]
Continue ReadingHow to apply memoization in Python using functools
Memoization is a technique used to optimize an exponential recursive function into a fast polynomial one. Let’s take the classic problem of Fibonacci numbers. The recursive function would look like this: In order to obtain an time complexity, we want to transform it using memoization. Because is called multiple times, we want to store the […]
Continue ReadingSwitching from Competitive Programming to Coding Interviews
After a pretty successful career in Competitive Programming, I have found myself to suck at coding interviews. How was this even possible? The questions that I had to deal with in the Central European Olympiad were way tougher than these. Are coding interviews broken or am I? Neither, I got comfortable. Having solved all those […]
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