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Studying for a Tech Interview Sucks, so Here's a Cheat Sheet to Help

This list is meant to be a both a quick guide and reference for further research into these topics. It's basically a summary of that comp sci course you never took or forgot about, so there's no way it can cover everything in depth. It also will be available as a gist on Github for everyone to edit and add to.

Data Structure Basics

###Array ####Definition:

Stores data elements based on an sequential, most commonly 0 based, index.
Based on tuples from set theory.

Setup Mac OS X Mountain Lion or Mavericks

Edit: I few months ago I got a new laptop and did the same thing on Mavericks.

I just replaced the hard drive of my mbp and decided to do a clean install of Mountain Lion (10.8.5) since I was still using Snow Leopard (10.6.8).

I kinda regret for not using Boxen to automate the

Creating a Happy Git Environment on OS X

Step 1: Install Git

brew install git bash-completion

Configure things:

git config --global user.name "Your Name"

git config --global user.email "[email protected]"

	# Install Homebrew
	#
	mkdir -p /usr/local
	mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
	sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local
	cd $HOME && mkdir -p homebrew
	curl -L https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master \| tar xz --strip 1 -C homebrew
	ln -nfs $HOME/homebrew/bin/brew /usr/local/bin/
	brew update

	cd ~
	mkdir homebrew && curl -L https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/tarball/master \| tar xz --strip 1 -C homebrew

	# Add the following to your .bash_profile
	export PATH=$HOME/homebrew/bin:$PATH

	sudo ln -s ~/homebrew/include/ /usr/local/include
	sudo cp ~/homebrew/lib/lib* /usr/local/lib/

	brew install redis

	# change to whatever location to where homebrew is installed
	if [ -z "$HOMEBREW_HOME" ]; then
	export HOMEBREW_HOME=$HOME/homebrew
	echo "HOMEBREW_HOME=$HOME/homebrew" >> ~/.profile
	fi

	# install homebrew for single user
	if [ ! -d "$HOMEBREW_HOME" ]; then
	mkdir -p $HOMEBREW_HOME && curl -L https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/tarball/master \| tar xz --strip 1 -C $HOMEBREW_HOME
	fi

	# see https://www.topbug.net/blog/2013/04/14/install-and-use-gnu-command-line-tools-in-mac-os-x/

	# core
	brew install coreutils

	# key commands
	brew install binutils
	brew install diffutils
	brew install ed --default-names
	brew install findutils --with-default-names

	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
	<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
	<plist version="1.0">
	<dict>
	<key>Ansi 0 Color</key>
	<dict>
	<key>Blue Component</key>
	<real>0.16470588743686676</real>
	<key>Green Component</key>
	<real>0.20784313976764679</real>

	curl -Lsf http://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tarball/master \| tar xz --strip 1 -C/Users/murahashi/.homebrew
	echo 'export PATH=$HOME/bin:$HOME/.homebrew/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bash_profile

	# Short of learning how to actually configure OSX, here's a hacky way to use
	# GNU manpages for programs that are GNU ones, and fallback to OSX manpages otherwise
	alias man='_() { echo $1; man -M $(brew --prefix)/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnuman $1 1>/dev/null 2>&1; if [ "$?" -eq 0 ]; then man -M $(brew --prefix)/opt/coreutils/libexec/gnuman $1; else man $1; fi }; _'