Writing on Data structures
Articles on Data structures from Tauseef Fayyaz: practical writing on engineering, AI and tech careers, drawn from leading a team and mentoring engineers.
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Fifteen Problem Shapes and the Move That Solves Each
The usual way to learn algorithms is to work through a long list of problems and hope something generalises, which leaves most people with a hundred solutions memorised and no idea what to do with the hundred and first. There are perhaps a dozen shapes of problem, each with a move that usually works. Fifteen of those shapes and how to recognise them.
Choosing a Data Structure Is Choosing What to Make Cheap
Most people learn data structures as a list of things to implement, forget nearly all of it, and go back to using an array for everything. Implementation is the least transferable part: you will implement a hash map approximately never and choose between one and something else roughly every second week. Twelve pairings for making that choice.
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