how to ace the coding interview (intermediate) anthony explains

today I give my advice for how I approach programming interviews!
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[@mfeickert07]

Thanks for this very nice video! It was nice to see you step through the full process. Video idea request/suggestion: In Episodes 94, 98, and 109 you've shown how to use unittest's mock module to patch objects, but you've mentioned that you don't want to go too in depth in those videos. Would you be open to making a video that focuses on the basics of mocking as well as using the pytest-mock pytest plugin to use the mocker fixture? I realize that this is a pretty specific request, but any additional mocking content would be great. :)

[@anthonywritescode]

yep it's already in the list -- been putting it off because I'm going to drop my controversial "pytest-mock is bad, actually"

[@mfeickert07]

@@anthonywritescode Oh spicy! :) Looking forward to it.

[@lifting_and_coding]

Never seen anyone mention writing tests in the interview but that's smart

[@mahery_ranaivoson]

Wow! this is really cool, would make more videos of this kind?

[@anthonywritescode]

there's a few linked in the description -- there's also more in the playlist: github.com/anthonywritescode/explains

[@MrHaste12]

Hey Anthony, thanks for another great video. A bit off topic question: Have you considered alternatives for hosting your content? With KZbin going adds galore and now removing dislikes, who knows what future holds

[@anthonywritescode]

haven't really thought about it -- though I have all my content locally either way

[@4790kusi]

Well I have an interview in 30 minutes so this is coming in clutch

[@anthonywritescode]

good luck good luck!

[@muddasirkhan805]

hi Anthony, any plans of videos for oop in python? i was not able to see any in the playlist. oop looks way complicated and was hoping to get some help. :-)

[@anthonywritescode]

my advice for OOP is generally: don't -- it makes your code much more difficult to maintain and understand -- that's why there's no videos about it

[@DisisAdrian]

Hi anthony, I wanted to let you know that I'm using your implementation for automating the nintendo switch. SUPERB, hunting regiice as we speak. Soon I'll be hunting for a shiny starter in bdsp

[@DisisAdrian]

thank you^^ forgot to say that

[@anthonywritescode]

nice! glad it worked out for ya!

[@Khushpich]

That's really helpful, thanks.

[@marsma18]

I think that your answer to twist can have bug in it. Should have write proper test to overlapping hours ;) love the vid, c u on stream.

[@anthonywritescode]

heh -- of course! I was imprecise in describing the problem since I forgot the original copy though it usually states "opening times are strictly increasing"

[@marsma18]

I mean case like that [(1,4) , (2,3), (5,6)] => [(1,4), (5,6)] which is still increasing but these simple change would result in nasty bug. There is always quite few assumption to problem tho.

[@anthonywritescode]

yeah they aren't completely overlapping -- that's also included in the original problem description

[@asafcohen6964]

if this was the technical interview i'd only work for that company if i had absolutely no other choice

[@anthonywritescode]

say more?

[@pradhvanbisht2177]

First 🍪🐍

[@kurianbenoy9369]

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