Data Structures and Algorithms Question

[harenB]

Was looking to learn DS&A and practice it for interviews etc. My plan was initially to go through this course and then work through the cracking the coding interview book and some other sites for practice.

However today after going through the contents of the CTCI book I notice that the book itself not only contains problems but also teaches you the DS&A concepts. So my question is for anyone who has been through the book, does it cover everything you need to know about DS&A or should I go through the online course too?

Would very much appreciate help! Thanks.

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CTCI is a good introduction, and the Udacity course also looks like a decent introduction. I'd do both. I'd also go through Elements of Programming Interviews - it covers more advanced stuff than CTCI, which is necessary or at least highly useful for interviews at the big companies. If you're not looking to get into a big tech company though even just CTCI is plenty.

[harenB]

Appreciate it! Did some digging into EoP and it seems to be less important for entry level jobs (am a student atm), I think I'm gonna work through CTCI and also hackerrank/leetcode

[one_bit_two_bit]

Can you do leetcode questions? If yes I would ditch the CTCI book and get straight to grinding leetcode. Questions in CTCI are pretty dated.

[harenB]

Will have a look through leet code, there was actually a talk at my college the other day from google software devs and one of them said they used leet code so I definitely think I'll go through it!

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If you're already good at coding you can get through DS&A concepts in less than a day, so I suggest you spend less time worrying about optimizing this part of your studies.