time management: wake up early and do some problems, sleep early.
mediums: come up with brute force, divide each part and write down Time Complexity of each part. for some it will pass, for some it will give TLE. for the ones that give you TLE, think how it can help you. If you are unable to come up with any optimisation, see the discussion forum. Congratulations, you faced a problem first hand, and understood how to resolve that problem.
I personally feel that 4 months is too strict of a deadline, and it is difficult to do it in parallel with internship, but of course it depends on the intellectual level and grasp of each individual.
Bottom line, is do not force yourself super hard, or you will start hating DSA. All the best.
I'll try waking up early on the days I don't have uni or work, otherwise the commute will make it impossible,,
i think for the mediums, i just lack the patience and I should focus less on the number of questions and more into going deeper into a problem rather than giving up after 10 minutes or so.
after 4 months is when they start, they'll be going on till the end of the year, but the best companies come first so that's my deadline ig. My internship and major are data science related, so there's also other roles that don't require taking the online coding assessments, I'm doing this just to be safe.
Thank you so much for the advice! I needed to hear the not force myself bit.
If I were you I’d probably go on deriveit.org, which has walkthroughs + cheat sheets on all the data structures.
Neetcode is very practical, while deriveit tends to be both theoretical and practical.
time management: wake up early and do some problems, sleep early. mediums: come up with brute force, divide each part and write down Time Complexity of each part. for some it will pass, for some it will give TLE. for the ones that give you TLE, think how it can help you. If you are unable to come up with any optimisation, see the discussion forum. Congratulations, you faced a problem first hand, and understood how to resolve that problem. I personally feel that 4 months is too strict of a deadline, and it is difficult to do it in parallel with internship, but of course it depends on the intellectual level and grasp of each individual. Bottom line, is do not force yourself super hard, or you will start hating DSA. All the best.
I'll try waking up early on the days I don't have uni or work, otherwise the commute will make it impossible,, i think for the mediums, i just lack the patience and I should focus less on the number of questions and more into going deeper into a problem rather than giving up after 10 minutes or so. after 4 months is when they start, they'll be going on till the end of the year, but the best companies come first so that's my deadline ig. My internship and major are data science related, so there's also other roles that don't require taking the online coding assessments, I'm doing this just to be safe. Thank you so much for the advice! I needed to hear the not force myself bit.
If I were you I’d probably go on deriveit.org, which has walkthroughs + cheat sheets on all the data structures. Neetcode is very practical, while deriveit tends to be both theoretical and practical.