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07 Jun 2023 12:43

CLOSEST PAIR
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Time: 2 hours - 3 hours
Difficulty: Hard
Languages: Any
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Given a set of points in two-dimensional space, implement a function that finds the closest pair of points among them, using the divide and conquer approach.
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03 Jun 2023 12:43

SIMPLEX METHOD
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Time: 2 hours - 3 hours
Difficulty: Hard
Languages: Any
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Given a linear programming problem in the standard form, implement the simplex method algorithm to solve it
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01 Jun 2023 12:42

BINARY TREE LEVEL ORDER TRAVERSAL
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Languages: Any
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Given the root of a binary tree, implement a function that performs a level-order traversal of the tree, and returns a list of lists, where each list contains the nodes at that level.
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28 May 2023 12:42

PALINDROME PARTITIONING
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Languages: Any
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Given a string, implement a function that finds all possible partitions of the string such that each partition is a palindrome, using dynamic programming approach
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24 May 2023 12:41

TOPOLOGICAL SORT
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Languages: Any
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Given a directed acyclic graph represented by an adjacency list, implement a function that performs a topological sort of the graph and returns a list of the visited nodes
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20 May 2023 12:41

BINARY TREE SERIALIZATION
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Languages: Any
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Given the root of a binary tree, implement a function that serializes the tree to a string and a function that deserializes the string back to the original tree.
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16 May 2023 17:41

SHORTEST PATH BETWEEN TWO NODES
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Languages: Any
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Given a graph represented by an adjacency matrix, implement a function that finds the shortest path between two given nodes using Dijkstra's algorithm.
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12 May 2023 04:12

HEAP SORT
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Languages: Any
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Given a list of integers, implement a function that sorts the list using the heap sort algorithm.
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08 May 2023 12:39

MINIMUM COIN CHANGE
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Languages: Any
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Given a target value and a list of coin values, implement a function that finds the minimum number of coins needed to make the target value, using dynamic programming approach.
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04 May 2023 12:38

UNION FIND
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Languages: Any
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Given a set of elements, implement a function that performs the union-find algorithm to determine if two elements are in the same set or not.
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01 May 2023 16:22

Coding advice
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28 Apr 2023 11:32

KMP
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Time: 1 hour - 2 hours
Difficulty: Hard
Languages: Any
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Given a text string and a pattern string, implement a function that performs the Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm to find all occurrences of the pattern in the text.
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24 Apr 2023 12:36

IMAGE THRESHOLDING
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Languages: Any
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Given an image represented by a matrix, implement a function that applies a thresholding effect to the image, converting it to a binary image.
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20 Apr 2023 10:35

HUFFMAN ENCODING
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Time: 1 hour - 2 hours
Difficulty: Hard
Languages: Any
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Given a string of characters, implement a function that performs Huffman encoding on the string, and returns the encoded string and a dictionary of the binary codes for each character.
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16 Apr 2023 12:34

IMAGE BLURRING
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Languages: Any
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Given an image represented by a matrix, implement a function that applies a blurring effect to the image using a convolution matrix.
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05 Jun 2023 12:43

BINARY SEARCH TREE
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Time: 1 hour - 2 hours
Difficulty: Medium
Languages: Any
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Given a list of integers, implement a function that constructs a binary search tree from the list, and a function that performs an in-order traversal of the tree
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01 Jun 2023 17:08

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30 May 2023 12:42

DISJOINT SET
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Languages: Any
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Given a collection of items, implement a function that performs the disjoint set data structure to track a set of elements partitioned into a number of disjoint (non-overlapping) subsets
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26 May 2023 12:42

GRAPH ISOMORPHISM
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Time: 1 hour - 2 hours
Difficulty: Hard
Languages: Any
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Given two graphs represented by an adjacency matrix, implement a function that checks if the two graphs are isomorphic by using the VF2 algorithm
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22 May 2023 12:41

MINIMUM CUT
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Time: 2 hours - 3 hours
Difficulty: Hard
Languages: Any
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Given a graph represented by an adjacency matrix, implement a function that finds the minimum cut of the graph using the Karger's algorithm
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18 May 2023 12:41

CONVEX HULL
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Time: 1 hour - 2 hours
Difficulty: Hard
Languages: Any
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Given a set of points in two-dimensional space, implement a function that finds the convex hull of the set using the Jarvis march algorithm.
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14 May 2023 12:41

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION
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Time: 2 hours - 3 hours
Difficulty: Hard
Languages: Any
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Given a set of items, each with a value and a weight, and a knapsack with a maximum weight capacity and a maximum value capacity, implement a function that finds the maximum value and weight that can be placed in the knapsack using dynamic programming approach.
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10 May 2023 10:39

IMAGE MORPHOLOGY
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Languages: Any
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Given an image represented by a matrix, implement a function that applies a morphological operation to the image using a structuring element.
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06 May 2023 14:38

RASTERIZATION
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Time: 1 hour - 2 hours
Difficulty: Hard
Languages: Any
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Given the vertices of a polygon and the resolution of a raster image, implement a function that rasterizes the polygon and returns a matrix representing the image.
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02 May 2023 07:38

IMAGE EDGE DETECTION
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Languages: Any
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Given an image represented by a matrix, implement a function that applies an edge detection effect to the image using a convolution matrix.
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30 Apr 2023 08:37

LCS
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Languages: Any
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Given two strings, implement a function that finds the length of the longest common subsequence of the two strings, using dynamic programming approach.
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26 Apr 2023 12:37

BFS
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Languages: Any
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Given a graph represented by an adjacency list, implement a function that performs a breadth-first search of the graph, and returns a list of the visited nodes.
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22 Apr 2023 09:36

LIS
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Medium
Languages: Any
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Given a list of integers, implement a function that finds the length of the longest increasing subsequence of the list, using dynamic programming approach.
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18 Apr 2023 12:34

DFS
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Time: 30 minutes - 1 hour
Difficulty: Easy
Languages: Any
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Given a graph represented by an adjacency list, implement a function that performs a depth-first search of the graph, and returns a list of the visited nodes.
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14 Apr 2023 12:34

TSP
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Time: 2 hours - 3 hours
Difficulty: Hard
Languages: Any
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Given a set of cities and the distance between each pair of cities, implement a function that finds the shortest possible route that visits each city exactly once and returns to the starting point, using the brute force approach.
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