30 Days of Code- Day 4 & 5

(20th & 21st July)

Hey there!!
Even with all the network hiccups, I made sure to sit down and write this update for Day 4 and Day 5 of my coding challenge.

💭 Thoughts:
These two days, I felt a bit of FOMO seeing so many people building amazing projects and achieving big milestones.
I honestly can’t wait for the day when I’ll be able to build real projects on my own, solve problems efficiently, and confidently sit for OAs.

But I keep reminding myself — this challenge is about my own pace and progress, not comparison.
Even the smallest steps forward count, and they’ll eventually lead me there - I hope.

💻 What I Did:

• DSA:

1. Counting Inversions
   – which gave me a great reason to revise Merge Sort.

2. Reverse Pairs
   – turned out to be quite similar to Counting Inversions.

3. Largest Subarray with K Sum
   – improved my understanding of subarray sums and hashing techniques.

• JavaScript :

  • Completed the DOM Basics
  • Explored DOM selectors, NodeList, and HTMLCollection — the differences between them are now much clearer.
  • Practiced creating new elements in DOM.

Takeaway for These Days:
Even on days when things don’t go as planned, doing something — anything — counts as progress. Old concepts have a way of resurfacing in new problems and creating elements in the DOM was actually fun; can’t wait to try editing and removing next.

Signing off :)
Akshita