Programming Puzzles and Data Structures: A Brief Compilation of Practice Problems, Expanded Solutions, and Walkthroughs

By Alvin Wan

This book contains 100 practice problems for technical interview preparation. These problems cover most commonly-seen topics, with a special focus on problems that many programmers have trouble with.Dozens of resources already exist online, so why write this book? The short and sweet answer: this book targets interview topics I find most students struggle with - specifically, quintessential topics for interview success. As of the time of this writing, I am embarking on my sixth semester as course staff and fourth as a student instructor - a grand total of 4,800 students in both lower and upper division computer science courses. I have also interviewed at companies such as Facebook, Google, and Two Sigma, culminating in a software engineering internship last summer at Facebook. I have been privy to common weaknesses, popular mistakes, and the interview experience itself, and this book was written to provide practice and advice in those areas.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1520312091
• ISBN13: 9781520312095
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"