17 MSFT questions Formation list

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Task List

Date Activity Status
17 Algo Practice: Number Of Islands
16 Algo Practice: Jump Game
15 Algo Practice: Median of Two Sorted Arrays
14 Algo Practice: Longest Substring No Repeating Characters
13 Algo Practice: Number Palindrome
12 Algo Practice: LRU Cache
11 Algo Practice: Longest Palindromic Substring
10 Algo: Container With Most Water
9 Algo: Reverse Words In String
8 Algo: Merge Intervals
7 Algo Practice: Three Number Sum
6 Algo Practice: Kth Largest Element in Unsorted Array
5 Algo Practice: Group Anagrams
4 Algo Practice: Water Area
3 Algo Practice: Merge Sorted Arrays
2 Algo Practice: Buy and Sell a Stock Once
1 Algo Practice: Climbing Stairs

16. Jump Game

This got many variations:

The first two are classics:

17. Number of Islands

https://neetcode.io/problems/count-number-of-islands
Linear time and linear space (due to stack)
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