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My Process for Coding Interview (Book) Exercises

I've become frustrated at the time it takes me to solve some coding problems while practicing for the coding interview. I've spent as much as 2 »

John Washam John Washam on interview, practicing 27 November 2016 Comments

Fun with Tries

I'm a fan of tries. I can't claim that I've used them in practice, but I wish I had. They're super! Common uses: substring search spell »

John Washam John Washam on computer science, python, tries 25 November 2016 Comments

Book Report: Data Structures and Algorithms in Python

I thought I was done reading books for the learning phase of my study process, and was itching to get back to the coding problems phase. »

John Washam John Washam on books, studying, algorithms, book report 21 November 2016 Comments

Retaining Computer Science Knowledge

I've been asked numerous times, "How do you remember all the stuff you've been studying?" Here's my method that will keep all the good stuff in »

John Washam John Washam on computer science, studying, review, retention 13 November 2016 Comments

Where to Get a Cheap Whiteboard

Large whiteboards are expensive. For the do-it-yourself type, you can pick up a wall panel at your local home improvement store. Just look for "melamine wall »

John Washam John Washam on interview 19 October 2016 Comments

My Algorithm Design Canvas

For doing daily programming problems, I started using this Algorithm Design Canvas created by HiredInTech. Their methodical process is really good. Check it out. By the »

John Washam John Washam on interview, programming problems 19 October 2016 Comments

How to Rock the Programming Portion of Your Interview

Well, it's taken many months to get to this point, because I had a lot to learn. With no formal computer science training and not knowing »

John Washam John Washam on interview, books, whiteboard 10 October 2016 Comments

Machine Learning: The Future has Arrived

I wanted to spend a good bit of time gaining deeper knowledge and more experience with machine learning and data science, but just ran out of »

John Washam John Washam on machine learning, data science 08 October 2016 Comments

Computing Convex Hull in Python

Geometric algorithms involve questions that would be simple to solve by a human looking at a chart, but are complex because there needs to be an »

John Washam John Washam on python, geometric algorithms 26 September 2016 Comments

Maximum Flow, Minimum Cut and the Ford-Fulkerson Method

Today I'm studying flow graphs and disjoint sets data structure. Maximum flow falls into the category of combinatoric optimization problems. The Ford-Fulkerson method, published in 1956, »

John Washam John Washam on flow networks 22 September 2016 Comments
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