"Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it." - Patrick McKenzie
Design patterns in 1 tweet Memento: capturing and storing an object's internal state Ex: save your progress in your favourite videogame.
Write a design documents before coding: 1. Expose the problem to solve 2. Propose alternatives 3. Get other people's feedback 4. Design docs act also as doc 5. They save time: explain the design once and let people read it 6. Can help you summarize your accomplishments
What is the fastest way to sort a list of numbers? The answer is, like with many other things in life, it depends: - Size of the array - Almost sorted? - Arrays of integers, doubles, strings, ...? - Does it fit in memory? - Does it fit in one machine - ...
A shell sort improves on the insertion sort by sorting incremental sublists. It falls between 𝑂(𝑛) and 𝑂(𝑛2).
"Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't." - Alan J. Perlis
Google infrastructure is divided into: - Regions: Independent geographical areas where Google hosts datacenters. It consists of 3+ zones - Zone: individual datacenter in a region. Ex: us-central1-a - Edge Points of Presence: where Google's network and the internet connect
You don't just leetcode your way into a job. During an interview, what you do before the coding question is also important: - First impressions - Friendliness - Enthusiasm - Passion for learning - Communication skills - ... Friendly good developer >> jerk god
3 Random coding tips Focus on providing value Don't just copy & paste Don't give up
When estimating how long it'll take you to complete a task, remember: A feature will always be more complex to implement than it is to explain.
"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes" - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Remember, the task in progress should always be so elementary that its execution is straightforward. Break your task into basic and simple steps that you can execute easily.
C was invented in 1972 at Bell Labs by Dennis Ritchie Used in: - UNIX - Linux kernel - Git - ... C has influenced many languages (Ex: C++ was originally called "C with classes") It is still amongst the most popular programming languages printf("Hello, World!");
7 Regex resources - regexone .com - developers .google .com/edu/python/regular-expressions - pyregex .com - regex101 .com - txt2re. com - regexlib .com - regular-expressions .info
Programming in Python is ok. Programming in JavaScript is ok. What's not ok is not to test your code.
Smart developers don't care about their programming language Dumb developers make their favourite language their identity
If they make you work overtime for one reason, they can make you work overtime for any reason