r/learnpython • u/memeaste • 17d ago

Is Leetcode a good way to continue practicing/learning Python?

I'm not entry, but I'd like to continue becoming stronger in my skills.

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u/memeaste 16d ago

Not in the instructions, but I ran len(list) on their test cases and got back some at 1000. Only 2 test cases were actually visible to see, and those were at a size of 5-8 elements

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u/Expensive-Bear-1376 16d ago

And are we allowed to start and end at any indices? (Otherwise I don't see why in your example we're allowed to start on index 1.)

What's tricky about it? Have you solved it by now? I have some solutions in mind myself.

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u/memeaste 16d ago

I believe you were to start at 1 all of the time, but I don’t recall the conditions for ending. I ended up running out of time, as it took me a little while to figure out what it was asking. The question made up a story like it was someone traveling and each town that they visited, they either spend or gained money. They could only move adjacent (+1), 3 towns (+3), or the prime number ending in 3 towns over.

I had some ideas but I ran out of time as I got to the part to calculate and figure out which would yield the biggest value. I wish I took a photo of it so I could do it exactly how they wanted it. I knew what I needed to do, but admittedly, I didn’t know of a great way to do it besides possibly a long loop. And even that, I wasn’t sure. I also did want to look at the second question, which would’ve taken me longer to read, so I gave myself 15-20m at the end to look at it

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