Software engineering and personal development
One of the first algorithms that we are usually taught is finding either the smallest or the largest element in a list of elements by iterating through every element in a list.
Let’s assume that we are trying to find the smallest element in a list.
The algorithm is quite straightforward and intuitive even for a 5-year-old: You assume that the first element is the smallest and save its value in a variable.
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It’s inevitable that you need to work with lists in your day-to-day job.
A list of users. A list of store items. A list of objects.
One potentially rare task that you may need to do is get a random element in a list.
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When you see famous developers in the industry, you tend to think highly of them.
Somehow you think that you are the only person who is facing job rejections.
They are always able to get whichever job they want, and it was always like that. When we take a closer look, it cannot be further from the truth.
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You probably know a sort-of universal way of finding the sum of elements in a list is pretty much all programming languages out there:
Iterate through a list of elements and then keep on adding the value of that element to a variable in which you have initialized before the start of the iteration.
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One great way to save up time is to take from other people’s lessons and mistakes and not have to learn them yourself through the hard way.
This also includes learning about mistakes that one can make as a software developer.
This includes the mistake of trying to learn everything, or being intimidated by fear.
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With the new quick advancements of machine learning and AI in general, we are witness to an increasing challenge of keeping up with the pace as the field processes at a faster rate than we may be able to keep up with.
Add to this the fact that a new paper is usually built on top of other previously published work and they may not give you the details about it which you then also need to go and read for that particular paper.
This chain of papers that you need to look up to and understand before you understand a paper that you are just about to read is getting longer.
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In a previous post, we talked about ways of checking whether 2 strings are anagrams using Counter() from the collections module.
In this article, we are going to mention another way of checking whether 2 strings are anagrams using sorted() method.
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You move to a new city and you don’t know where the nearest grocery store is.
You don’t beat yourself up — it’s normal. You just use Google Maps to find it.
After you’ve been there several times, it’s highly likely that you won’t need to use Google Maps.
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Lists are part of typically every project that you work on these days. You have lists of people, a list of products, a list of activities, and the list of lists goes on.
There can be times when you want to only have unique elements in that list, for example, if someone has liked multiple posts and you want to get all the people who have liked one of your posts. You do not want to include that same person multiple times in that list.
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Checking whether a word is an anagram of another one can be a question that is quite common in coding interviews.
If you don’t know what an anagram is, here is a definition:
An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. For example, the word anagram itself can be rearranged into nag a ram, also the word binary into brainy and the word adobe into abode.
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