The Python Counter class from the collections module is a powerful tool that we can also use for counting the occurrences of elements in a list.
Tag: sort
One of the common things that you can notice in many tasks is the fact that you need to sort elements in a list. In fact, this can also be part of an interview that you may go through while applying for a job. Maybe not only sorting elements, but sorting elements fulfilling certain conditions.
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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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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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