Break Away: Programming And Coding Interviews

A course that teaches pointers, linked lists, general programming, algorithms and recursion like no one else

What Will I Learn?
Know how to approach and prepare for coding interviews
Understand pointer concepts and memory management at a very deep and fundamental level
Tackle a wide variety of linked list problems and know how to get started when asked linked list questions as a part of interviews
Tackle a wide variety of general pointer and string problems and know how to answer questions on them during interviews
Tackle a wide variety of general programming problems which involve just plain logic, no standard algorithms or data structures, these help you get the details right!
Requirements
This course requires some basic understanding of a programming language, preferably C. Some solutions are in Java, though Java is not a requirement

What’s Covered:

Pointers: Memory layout of pointers and variables, pointer arithmetic, arrays, pointers to pointers, pointers to structures, argument passing to functions, pointer reassignment and modification – complete with visuals to help you conceptualize how things work.
Strings: Strings, Character pointers, character arrays, null termination of strings, string.h function implementations with detailed explanations.
Linked lists: Visualization, traversal, creating or deleting nodes, sorted merge, reversing a linked list and many many problems and solutions, doubly linked lists.
Bit Manipulation: Work with bits and bit operations.
Sorting and searching algorithms: Visualize how common sorting and searching algorithms work and the speed and efficiency of those algorithms
Recursion: Master recursion with lots of practice! 8 common and uncommon recursive problems explained. Binary search, finding all subsets of a subset, finding all anagrams of a word, the infamous 8 Queens problem, executing dependent tasks, finding a path through a maze, implementing PaintFill, comparing two binary trees
Data Structures: Understand queues, stacks, heaps, binary trees and graphs in detail along with common operations and their complexity. Includes code for every data structure along with solved interview problems based on these data structures.
Step-by-step solutions to dozens of common programming problems: Palindromes, Game of Life, Sudoku Validator, Breaking a Document into Chunks, Run Length Encoding, Points within a distance are some of the problems solved and explained.

Who is the target audience?
YEP! New engineering graduate students who are interviewing for software engineering jobs
YEP! Professionals from other fields with some programming knowledge looking to change to a software role
YEP! Software professionals with several years of experience who want to brush up on core concepts
NOPE! Other technology related professionals who are looking for a high level overview of pointer concepts.