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Sliding Window Technique - Algorithmic Mental Models

Ryan Schachte 383,081 6 years ago
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Please support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thesimpleengineer https://twitter.com/thesimpengineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/schachte/ https://ryan-schachte.com Don't forget to subscribe! Code: https://gist.github.com/Schachte/87d7c0165a584f26b3ad7845f8010387 In this video, we'll begin our series of algorithmic mental models and cover the idea behind the sliding window technique. This technique allows us to reduce a typical n^2 algorithm to a linear time algorithm with minimal effort. This exploits linear time optimizations on data structures that deal with iteration and group sequential pieces of data together. More resources: https://medium.com/@zengruiwang/sliding-window-technique-360d840d5740 https://thesimpleengineer.com https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8269916/what-is-sliding-window-algorithm-examples *Timestamps* 00:00 Welcome 8:25 Maximum sum of contiguous subarray of size 3. 16:35 Question variants 24:50 Dynamic variant. Smallest subarray with given sum. 27:45 Smallest subarray code start 32:48 Smallest subarray solution 33:20 Longest substring with length k distinct characters

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