Coding Interview Questions is a book that presents interview questions in simple and straightforward manner with a clear-cut explanation. This book will provide an introduction to the basics. It comes handy as an interview and exam guide for computer scientists.
Topics Covered:
- Programming Basics
- Introduction
- Recursion and Backtracking
- Linked Lists
- Stacks
- Queues
- Trees
- Priority Queue and Heaps
- Graph Algorithms
- Sorting
- Searching
- Selection Algorithms [Medians]
- Symbol Tables
- Hashing
- String Algorithms
- Algorithms Design Techniques
- Greedy Algorithms
- Divide and Conquer Algorithms
- Dynamic Programming
- Complexity Classes
- Design Interview Questions
- Operating System Concepts
- Computer Networking Basics
- Database Concepts
- Brain Teasers
- NonTechnical Help
- Miscellaneous Concepts
Advantages when compared with other books
Complete program are available when compared with other books
Wide variety of problems and optimized algorithms on how to solve them with best complexity
covers design patterns also
The subject is dealt in great detail and problem solving is the primary focus, which I truly loved. It saves you a lot of time to have all kinds of questions aggregated at one place of varying difficulty, rather than having to look for them on internet or elsewhere. The best part about the book is the organization and approach to problems. It is not merely a question and answer book, it instigates you to think about the problem, come up with something and the compare it against what is provided as a solution. The language is lucid and easy to understand and the typical approach towards any problem is to come up with a solution anyhow (say O(n^2)) and then going on improving the complexity to O(NlogN) and then finally to an O(N). All the examples are annotated with comments and their space/time complexities.The approach is more of a critical-thinking one, the book helps you build an aptitude towards attacking a problem. While most books give you only the best algorithm towards a problem (and you never get to learn about the bad ones, which is necessary too), this book slowly builds up from just a possible solution to the best possible one. For those who think Levitin, CLRS, Cracking the coding is do-able, try cracking the whole of this!!!!