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0:00 Intro
0:56 1. Leftmost Binary Search
2:17 2. Deque
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4:08 4. Inorder Traversal of a Binary Search Tree
4:34 5. Helper Pointers in a Linked List
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[@thedevguild7525]

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[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

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[@mrKnown01]

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[@devstuff2576]

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[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

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[@mr.fabulous5165]

Hey Daniel, thank you for you advice, I tried ask people online, more specifically on Stack overflow. It takes me a little bit time to figure out the right format of how to post a question a stack overflow. But once i did it just blow my mind that how fast other programer replied me and literally faster than asking my classmate or tutors! Thank you for letting me to pick your brain again! Really happy to have such strong tool in my toolbox now and you deserve 1 million subs!

[@leoncvetkovski4679]

Amazing, thank you so much! I really felt like summaries of the DS&A concepts were missing in the online education space. Super helpful.

[@keshavakumar9828]

I have been following your advice for practising leetcode for the last 4 months, and it's working wonderfully for me. Thank you for this short-hand guide, will use it for future problem solving.

[@vijethkashyap151]

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[@david-hasselhoff7483]

Dude, this is the absolute gold of gold. You're the man, thank you so much!!

[@thedevguild7525]

Wow, this channel also include educational content, sweet! The explanations not only nail it, but it is also concise and makes tough concept easy to pick up! Though I am not on the lookout for job, been practicing DSA to improve my skillset and at the same time seek some excitement in life!

[@bossysmaxx3327]

I just wrote tets randomly on his video and the guy just replied to it, tf

[@khoaanh7375]

That is a rly nice edit, thanks for your effort in this community.

[@mmm-ie5ws]

amazing video, thanks. I subbed so quickly.

[@TonyDiCroce]

C++ has deque too. Also leftmost binary search is lower_bound() in c++.

[@oanaghicajanucristina]

OMG, SUBSCRIBED. the best video ever, and also your website is so useful, with your resources i have hope that i will be accepted to one of the internships i am applying. THANK YOU A LOT!

[@philbert5838]

Your study guide is very timely for me, I was trying to look for something that will help me after failing my interviews. You really inspire me pk! Thanks a lot!

[@bossysmaxx3327]

I just wrote tets randomly on his video and the guy just replied to it, tf

[@videolosss]

Great advice. Thanks for your generosity. Your humour an added bonus.

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Love the channel name. Glad to connect with fellow pirates!!

[@carlosx7777]

you are great!!!! i think this will help me a lot, is way more structured than just reading Cracking the coding interview or going without a plan on leetCode

[@stanleylinsy98]

amazing video. I will be taking data structure and algorithm class in the next 6 months. Content like this will be of great help. Thank you

[@darkdudironaji]

I am about to graduate and needed this so bad. Thank you so much!

[@shotime3241]

FYI “leftmost binary search” is actually called a left bisection. Python actually offers a library that does both left and right bisection - though you might not be allowed to use it during an interview

[@bossysmaxx3327]

I just wrote tets randomly on his video and the guy just replied to it, tf

[@RuturajZadbuke]

I have interviewed in almost all FAANG companies and many others and am ex FAANG. I assure you that you can use bisect no matter what given you can explain what bisect does and how it does it properly to the interviewing engineer. Same with deque, doesn't matter if the engineer doesn't know what a deque is as long as you can give a 2 to 5 minute overview on deck and why using a deque would be suitable for that specific problem. Interviews are equally about communicating your solutions properly to even folks with non-technical background as you might be required to do this at your real world SWE job.

[@michaelyu6732]

The true technical interview savior

[@ladyv890]

Thank you! for the lc help! Also like your sweater :-)

[@ethical-hack]

Thank you for the wonderful Video PK!!!

[@Onigirii]

Thank you! This is exactly what I need right now

[@cunghocthuattoan7869]

Thank you so much!! Appreciate your help!

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great video and i am happy that he didn't give false hope to beginners by saying that this is enough for interviews instead he said that this can be kept handy and can be used by a beginner to boost his/her journey of leetcoding !!!!!

[@joshhitech]

I really appreciate the effort you put into this. Thanks a lot!

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Thanks for the cheat sheet. It's very helpful!

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Thank you! This is really helpful.

[@sw6273]

ありがとうございます！大変助かります！

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Doumo!

[@surya8985]

Thanks pk 😊 most of the tips u told,I faced them recently and they are very interesting

[@Whatthetrash]

This is awesome! Thank you for this! :)

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Thank you so much sir! This is extremely useful.

[@leliarubiano6392]

You should make a course for interview's questions you are amazing at explaining complicated things.

[@HuGzHa]

this is extremely useful, thanks pk ❤

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It's really good PK! ❤❤

[@hibashi.-.4784]

You are just awesome !!! Thankkk uuu soooo muchhh for sharing this cheatsheet . i'm a second year computer science student , few weeks ago i started to leetcode because of your advices and now am getting better at coding :)

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Amazing tips! 🚀

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Thank you for sharing!

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[@english51]

Thanks, hopefully will have cpp template soon

[@nobugaming]

You can adapt leftmost to after leftmost by changing m to (l+r+1)//2 and updating l to l=m and updating r to r=m-1. This is useful for finding the first element that fails some condition

[@bossysmaxx3327]

I just wrote tets randomly on his video and the guy just replied to it, tf

[@sushenjamwal]

can you pls explain with example?

[@chrisw9597]

this is not a gold mine, this is a diamond mine!! Thanks for the cheat sheet!

[@SidTrip]

Nice video! Subscribed!

[@iamnoob7593]

Thanks man , QuickSelect is necessary for interviews?

[@21doyourthing]

nice! please do more of these

[@michaeltruong405]

Super helpful thanks!

[@user-nj8lu8ld9e]

it's good to know what data structure to use when, but that's just the beginning and only gets you passing like 1/4 of the test cases. A lot of these hard questions require familiarity with implementation and clever tricks that most people wouldn't think of in an interview. You have to be familiar with the syntax of your language and all its functions and datatypes, etc.

[@brajagopalmukherjee1588]

Thanks for this man

[@fraction37]

You're a good teacher! You should make more videos like this one!

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Thank you for teaching! Off topic: what brand is that long sleeve? It’s nice!

[@a23956491z]

This video is too good to be like a cheat for preparing leetcode. So many information compress in such one video. Love it.

[@bossysmaxx3327]

I just wrote tets randomly on his video and the guy just replied to it, tf

[@bhagyeshgaikwad6964]

Amazing dude!

[@raniel0511]

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Mmmm. Log time. I am taking DS&A at school right now so this video was perfectly timed. But seriously, you are the best youtube tutor thus far. Your coding tips in this video alone are phenomenal. I hope to see more complex subjects broken down into simple terms (plus good practice tips!) as most videos on youtube just cover the basic stuff and not even explain them like you have. Your video was only eight minutes but I came away with a much better understanding of DS&A after watching it! Plus I mainly use Python, Java, and Javascript so thats even more convenient that your code is in Python and Java.

[@bossysmaxx3327]

I just wrote tets randomly on his video and the guy just replied to it, tf

[@meoya_gnauh]

Thanks!

[@arno.claude]

Wow, thank you!

[@vincent3311]

Thanks senpai, im very grateful the person like you is exist lol

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[@mjmikaelson]

Very nice!

[@devika041]

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Great works

[@schan263]

I am not looking for a job now but I still do leetcode almost everyday. Today is Christmas day and I did 1 hard and 1 medium. I like to do leetcode before I play video games. Will do more if I have time later tonight after I played video games.

[@aaronstark171]

thanks bro!

[@mikhailglazkov6075]

its my first sem learning dsa with java hope all goes well till end and i get placed at MAANG

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Great content Sir

[@dr4ks]

Just Excellent

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Thank you! You have earned your place in heaven!

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Amazing video 😍😍

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Request ya, create video approach of TDD (when use and when TDD is bad).

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useful share. thanks👍

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I clicked on this video thinking it's just another click bait, but it's actually good very helpful.

[@hoangnguyendinh1107]

Can you give some tips on writing Java code short and clean and less bug? I always find my code buggy when doing hard problems like having a lot complex logic

[@isma5627]

The GOAT itself.

[@dsa2441]

Thanks for the tips, very interesting. Btw what about C++

[@RainOnline]

im too dumb for this

[@baref0ot455]

Such an understandable response 😂 You seriously just have to grind UNTIL you understand. That’s why it pays so well. Its not impossible, just difficult to grasp - at first. But once you start getting it, you’ll start getting it!

[@andrewtitus6839]

Everyone is dumb at something when they are just starting. The key is to keep asking questions until you finally get that ah ha moment. I remember not knowing how a linked list worked or how to use .next, but I kept asking questions and now it makes as much sense as 2 + 2 = 4. Then just keep building your understanding from there.

[@mememomo9911]

Thank you

[@sagestudy]

Please Teach DSA using Python 3, with your editing it will be fun to learn and grasp the concept. And this video is really helpful.

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Good, I also start making this type of video 😊😊😊😊

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Thanks

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[@areebshahid5201]

The real goat

[@chilly2171]

c++ has deque as well. I recommend c++

[@orcaorka]

Great video! Quick question though, doesn't a linked list represent all three data structures easily already? Personally I just use append()/insert(0) and pop() for stacks, queues and linkedlists, so I don't really understand why using a deque is better.

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Time-complexity wise, no difference. Performance-wise, ArrayDeque is better; I use ArrayDeque personally. Also, for me, the interfaces of a deque, add/remove first/last are easier to remember than append(0), insert, pop, etc. See stackoverflow.com/questions/6163166/why-is-arraydeque-better-than-linkedlist

[@Whatthetrash]

PK, I had a question. I'm using your technique of using a deque for a stack (append, pop), queue (append, popleft) and linked list (append, pop, appendleft, popleft). I'm a bit confused, though. Stack and queue have certain operations associated with them (stack has push, pop and peek and queue has enqueue and dequeue ) -- but what do linked lists have? I haven't been able to find anything linked lists are required to have. So, I have 2 questions please: 1.) Do linked lists have certain expected operations and 2.) Why is a deque the ideal data structure to implement those operations with. If you don't have the time to answer, a point in the right direction would be appreciated. Thanks!

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

1. I’d say addfirst, removefirst, addlast, and removelast. 2. Deque already has those operations implemented within. It’s not exactly an ideal data structure but a working alternative. Check piratekingdom.com/leetcode

[@Whatthetrash]

@@PIRATEKINGDOM Ah, okay. I see. Thanks so much for taking the time to break that down. Much respect! :)

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Can you include C++ to the sheet?

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[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Cs50 is a good start

[@darshanjain9658]

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[@darshanjain9658]

@@abhisheknandann cool..! Thanks a lot!

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[@mr.fabulous5165]

hey Daniel, thank you for sharing this cheatsheet! Recently I am leetcoding actively, and you really motivate me a lot! This is the first year of my CS degree, hope I get my first intern by the end of my first year of my degree! I saw you actively doing leetcode all year around? why is that? was it because u want to be at the position where you are ready to switch job anytime or that was a hobby to you or both?

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

Just keeping my skills sharp ;)

[@mr.fabulous5165]

@@PIRATEKINGDOM would you like to make a video about how to taking notes for leetcode or just generally for engineering?

[@darshanjain9658]

Excellent videos..! I have just graduated high school and before going to college I'm really confused on what kind of online courses should I take up... One side of me has an interest in hacking so I took up a course on ethical hacking with python but on the other side I'm not sure if I should take up a career in hacking or software development or so on and I'm really really confused. I would really appreciate if you could let me know what kind of courses I'm supposed to do at this stage.

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

I suggest you learn how to build websites and taking courses on data structures and algorithms

[@darshanjain9658]

@@PIRATEKINGDOM okay thanks a lot...! But then if I'm interested in cyber security in the future will this help me?

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

@@darshanjain9658 it’ll still help... I believe. Sorry, I’m not a cyber security expert

[@darshanjain9658]

@@PIRATEKINGDOM okayyy thanks a lot for the reply :))

[@chilly2171]

deques cannot be used to replace a linked list. you can't store references with deque and link it with other data structures. it is not possible to remove from the middle of a deque in constant time.

[@PIRATEKINGDOM]

True, but I talked about it in the limited usage of add/remove first/last which is suffient in most lc problems.

[@dawizze1]

thoughts on algoexpert?

[@ary_21]

Any templates for cpp users ?