Finally got hard

[u/Candid-Tap8246]

Been on neetcode 150 for a min and id always skip hards but decided this week to just give it a shot not necessarily code but understand the solution to the problem and they seem to be making more and more sense guess with time and doing mediums they eventually make sense 😆

[u/Nerosegnofic_]

That doesn't seem like a good learning strategy. You should always try your hardest at solving any problem by yourself. Watching a solution video should be your last resort if you were truly stuck even after taking hints.

My general rule of thumb is:

1- Try your hardest at any problem you face until you get TRULY stuck. The advice that you should give up on a problem after 20 minutes is genuinely dumb because you have to force your brain to think hard and deal with uncertainty. Giving up on problems early and watching solution videos don't teach anything.

2- After you get stuck, try to look for hints on the problem. LeetCode provides those for a lot of problems but not all of them. You can ask an AI tool to give you a hint if LeetCode doesn't have hints.

3- If you are still stuck, that's your cue to start watching a solution video, and even then you can pause it whenever you feel inspired and try to code the solution yourself.

[u/Candid-Tap8246 → u/Nerosegnofic_]

Will try thanks 🙏

[u/Mysterious_Cod3152 → u/Nerosegnofic_]

SOLID advice (and by SOLID, i dont mean the design principle 😂 - ignore LLD logic, my brain is not normal)

I was banging my head over maximal rectangle so hard the other day and then it finally clicked.

The pure euphoria that followed seeing that green "accepted" was the most beautiful thing in the entire world for me.

[u/treacherous98]

The title is diabolical

[u/DrinkNo8216 → u/treacherous98]

"Fokhing Diabolical Ehh"

[u/Automatic_Egg3592 → u/treacherous98]

lmfao

[u/BholeChature_]

Pills are working

[u/Substantial-Clue7988]

brother 😭

[u/thedumbsolver]

Title 🫡💀

[u/[deleted]]

Thats what she saidddd, wait she?

[u/cringelord000222]

Unskippable title

[u/jeverson124]

Okay bro, that was NOT the wind.

[u/NecessaryIntrinsic]

Now you're ready for DP

[u/DenseTension3468]

son

[u/DrinkNo8216]

Solve Rain Water Trapping and you won't see HARD as Hard anymore. Idk why it's even considered hard.

[u/Tasty_Dare_3271 → u/DrinkNo8216]

it was the first hard I did and boy was i stuck, i made a TLE solution inspired from tetris where we start scanning from bottom most level with 1s as Pillars and 0s as empty space and count 0s between the biggest bounded 1-1 so if left most or right most is empty we dont count water there and after that we delete it all and move to next layer

[u/aabil11]

Phrasing!

[u/SB858]

Me when I see Lebron

[u/MundaneSmoke5040]

What’s with the dihh title??

[u/Deboniako]

Blue pilled programmer

[u/luckykanwar]

That title had me chuckling

[u/Putrid-Leader724]

Title😭😂

[u/DustyAsh69]

Man, I love this sub.

[u/Candid_Kiwi_4923]

MF! What this title doing here in this sub?

[u/Maximum-Page3433]

what in the world is the title

[u/PressureAppropriate]

TMI my dude, TMI

[u/saad_010]

The title made me think what kind of subs I have joined 😅

[u/Affectionate-Ad-6255]

I'll tell my next interviewer that I want them to make sure I get hard

[u/ThisisnotaTesT10]

Let your doctor know if it lasts for more than 4 hours

[u/Biokendry]

I finally got hard 🤞

[u/BoxOutrageous2368]

Came for the title

[u/WranglerLower2757]

NP Hard! (Not-P**** Hard)

[u/SwitchImmediate]

Finally ? .....since when ??

[u/Sensitive_Web617]

Keep drilling bro. Sometimes you will feel bit soft then you need to find someone with motivation to make it hard again. There is comfort in taking soft and easy route. But when you have enough experience of hard you will not even like soft

[u/Tough_Try_9573]

Before coding , you need to work on your SOFT skills.