Katrina DeVaney kattak

Algorithms/Technical Interviewing Workshop - March 13, 2017

Women Who Code - East Bay Gist link bit.ly/wwcberkeley

What is the Algorithms/Technical Interviewing Workshop?

Every two weeks, I lead technical interviewing/algorithms workshops with Women Who Code - East Bay. The workshops are held every other Monday at NextSpace, right next to downtown Berkeley BART. For more information or to sign up, visit the Women Who Code East Bay Meetup page.

1. Introduction & overview

People are working on games, image processing, nails, leading workshops, and React.

April 22, 2017

Recreating RSpec

Idea from WAT guy

describe MeetupUser do
...
end

Two principles of Redux: (1) the single immutable state tree (2) the state tree is redundant

1. The Single Immutable State Tree

Represent the whole state of app as a single JS object
All changes and mutations to state are explicit
State or state tree: everything that changes in your app is contained in this object

2. The State Tree is Redundant (?)

Dispatch an action: change the state
Rec: use strings because they are "surorizable" (serializable?)

Sift Science

1. Do more in componentDidUpdate

imperative vs. declarative
imperative: how you want to achieve
declarative: what you want to achieve

Declarative - often seen with:

i.e. promises
immutable objects

Hi everyone, Thanks for a lovely and productive session this week.

Covered -

Dynamic Programming

Find max of array
Stock price: https://leetcode.com/problems/best-time-to-buy-and-sell-stock/description/

1. Where do I get started? Or, I just finished a session, how do I look up x topic?

Prefer videos? Udacity's free and excellent Technical Interviewing course (https://www.udacity.com/course/technical-interview--ud513) (2.5 hrs)
Prefer reading? Bradfield's free and excellent online book (https://bradfieldcs.com/algos/)
Prefer reading 2.0 ? Eloquent Javascript's free and excellent online book (http://eloquentjavascript.net/) with interactive codeboxes

Suitable if you're learning how to code && developing your algorithmically-thinking skills at the same time

Prefer visualizations? Vaidehi Joshi at BaseCS (https://medium.com/basecs) writes excellent weekly blog posts - her notes are colorful and help you visualize.

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