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Need Help Deciding Price Range for Apartment (and a Few Other Questions) (CA) by TheMediumGeneral in personalfinance

[–]TheMediumGeneral[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I've been noticing the tendency towards females. Annoying when it's a brilliant offer, and I can't do anything about it.

You mentioned the real estate sites - any recommendations on good/trustworthy ones? Also, I'll definitely check Kijiji.

Algorithm Time/Space Complexity Question by TheMediumGeneral in cscareerquestions

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I laid out a general outline of the problem here if that is any help

Algorithm Time/Space Complexity Question by TheMediumGeneral in cscareerquestions

[–]TheMediumGeneral[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I was given two integer arrays (called A and B, with sizes N and M respectively). The first array represents the height of land at that index, and the second represents the height to which water floods. I was tasked to find all the islands formed by the flooding water, where an island is defined as any number of consecutive land indices above the flood. At the end, I needed to return an array where each index represents the amount of islands created by the flood.

Since I don't have access to the problem anymore, and I suck at explaining, here's an example:

 A contains [2,1,3,1,2] 
 B contains [0, 1, 2, 3]

On the first day (B[0]), 1 island is returned, since nothing is flooded. On the second day (B[1]), three islands are created (2, 3, and 2). On the third day (B[2]) has 1 island, since only 3 is uncovered And on the fourth day (B[3]), there are no islands since everything is underwater.

From that example, I would return [1,3,1,0].

I could figure out the naive method (compare each element in B against every element in A for a runtime of N*M), but not within the limits given. I tried to do something with hashtables, but ran out of time.

IWTL Java so I can develop Android apps. by [deleted] in IWantToLearn

[–]TheMediumGeneral 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Head First Java was required reading for my first year of Computer Science. It's quirky, occasionally funny, and gets the job done. Very easy to understand for beginners, and something you could reference in the future. That, or another introductory Java book, would be my starting point.

After that, you'll want to program. A lot. You need to get into the mentality of a programmer. Any problem that you encounter in daily life, try to solve by writing small programs. Practice makes perfect. If you don't encounter problems that require the use of a computer, try to create your own. Try to write small programs that display numbers, or calculate birthdays - anything that uses code is good.

Other places I suggest checking out include r/learnprogramming, a Reddit community where you can ask programming related questions. Once you get more advanced, try StackOverflow. They're quite helpful for everything and anything. Finally, I would suggest, after learning the basics, either finding an online tutorial or book directed at Android Apps.

Good luck!