Programming

Episode 13 - Binary Heaps

Today we're going to discuss the binary heap data structure. In this episode, you'll learn where to use heaps in practice, how they can come handy to you during a coding interview, and how to implement them! Along the way, we'll cover heap sort, priority queues, load balancing, and more!

Episode 12 - COVID-19. Epidemic modeling with SIR.

Instead of digging into algorithms and data structures, today, you'll learn about epidemic modeling. In 9 minutes in this episode, you'll get a mathematical intuition on the spread of COVID-19 and the essential variables we can control, which can help us fight the virus.

Episode 11 - Coupling and Cohesion

Today you'll learn how keeping your abstractions more cohesive and less coupled can improve the quality and maintainability of your software.

Episode 10 - Topological Sort

The chances are that the information from this episode will come in handy to you during a coding interview and likely in real life! In this episode, you'll learn the topological sort algorithm. Along the way, you'll understand what's a dependency graph and how topological sort operates on this data structure. We'll also discuss a few real-life examples where I had to implement topological sort myself!

Episode 9 - Sorting. Counting Sort.

Have you ever been frustrated during interviews thinking that your interviewer expects you to have memorized a bunch of sorting algorithms you'd never need in real life? In this episode of the podcast learn how to approach such situations. In performance critical systems you may have to implement an efficient sorting yourself. Learn how to beat the built-in algorithm in a few lines of code!