Changing language
Hi, I'm having trouble with Reverse a String (/challenges/reverse-a-string). The question asked... can I change the language of challenges
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Sum Digits Until One
Hi, guys! I have a question about "Sum Digits Until One" problem. When I run the code for all the test cases everything is perfect, but when I click 'RUN TESTS' button, it gives me an error: 4 ('An error occurred!', NameError("name 'assertEqual...
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questions removed after logging in
Hi I did 35 questions without being logged in and realized it later and now when I am signed in all that progress is gone anyway to get it back??????
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Clarification on Test
in the case [ 11, 13, 21, 3 ] shouldn't the answer be [ 13, 21, -1, 11 ] ? The first few are straight forward it seems 11 -> 13, 13 -> 21, 21 -> -1. For 3 we loop back to the start so 3 would map to 11 ...
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Is an anagram
Hi, I'm having trouble with Is An Anagram (/challenges/is-an-anagram). I would like to think I have the correct code but it is giving me fails on the test. It returns False in pycharm when using Mary and Army but here it gives me a fail. It should...
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Languages for Solutions
I am new to this platform and I have a question. Are solutions only written in javascript? I am into python and plan to write my solution in python and compare with solutions written in python. Can anyone please help in this regards. Second, when ...
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I am trouble with reverse stringg in python
HiHiHiHiHiHiHiHi, I'm having trouble with Reverse a String (/challenges/reverse-a-string). The question asked... I got stuck on... Here's some code I tried: ```js function() { } ```
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CreateFactories function call
For this challenge/exercise: https://algodaily.com/challenges/closures-and-dependency-injection How would I get this createFactories(logger) function to work. I'm not sure of what to put as the argument in place of 'looger' parameter in the funct...
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Would this not be a simpler solution?
For the detect substring in a string problem, here was the solution offered: ```js function detectSubstring(str, subStr) { let idxOfStart = 0, j = 0; for (i = 0; i < str.length; i++) { // if...
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What are your job titles?
I used to be "Web Engineer" at my first software job, but recently I've just been "Software Engineers". What about you guys?
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What would you like from AlgoDaily?
Hi guys, Jake here, founder of AlgoDaily. Thanks for checking the site out! I'm looking for feedback on what you guys would like to see. Is it more coding challenges? More career guides? A better way to reach out to professional developers? Let me...
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Validate Palindrome
I think for the solution you provided, we must account for the case of the character or letter as well as the whitespaces.
So here's my solution:
```js /* jshint esversion: 6 */ function isPalindrome(str) { if (!isAlphaNumeric(str)) { ... 2 posts
Is An Anagram
Since the previous challenge already mentioned time complexities. It should be mentioned that the sorting solution is Quasilinear O(n log n) and a linear solution exists. If you create a set from both strings O(n+m) and then check that both string...
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MS or Work?
I am a last year CS designing student M21. I'm from Canada by way of Pakistan. I'm at present seeking after my student from Pakistan as well. I might want to seek after a graduate degree in CS from the US due to the nature of instruction and resea...
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Should AlgoDaily Be Open Sourced?
Exactly as the title says. Thoughts?
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Do You Have a Side Hustle?
Wondering who else here has one. Has it benefitted your career?
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Software To Something Else/Sales?
i've been a dev 3 years, current company is a university. decent gig but i've always been more of a social person. coding is just meetings/pretty standardized. i like freedom like in sales. have heard sales eng is a good route, thoughts?
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anyone can help?
in https://algodaily.com/challenges/implement-a-graph, I don't get why addEdge(src, dest) { this.adjacencyList.get(src).push(dest); this.adjacencyList.get(dest).push(src); // push to both adjacency lists } we need to push to both? isn'...
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Startup or Big Company?
Pros and cons? I prefer bigger companies simply due to scale of impact.
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Less Demand For Software Engineers?
There was a reddit thread about this https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/buvudx/decliningfuturedemandforswe/ Key point: Furthermore, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics forecasts that jobs for computer programmers will decline by ...
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