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1 Year of Consistent LeetCoding

Davinderpal Singh Rehal on October 24, 2024

It was September 2023, a time when change was in the air. I found myself between jobs, and as luck would have it, Google had just kicked off a hiri...

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Anmol Baranwal • Oct 24

Great 🔥 I was always more interested in GitHub compared to Leetcode. Solved around 124 questions on all topics (except trie) and then moved on. My favorite topic was DP.

Being consistent definitely helps.

Davinderpal Singh Rehal • Oct 25 • Edited

:EDIT: Just realised there is a comment already asking the same

DP is something I still struggle with specially the harder problems. So when you say more interested in GitHub is there a section in GitHub for solving problems?

kelsey-d • Oct 25

Do you mean you preferred contributing code? Clarifying just in case there was anythign else GitHub offered it's a completely different landscape to LeetCode.

Anmol Baranwal • Oct 25

Yes, I loved working on new projects and contributing to open source.

I participated in 500+ discussions (was trending on github discussions for 2 months), did 200+ PRs (became a maintainer of open source repo) and created several projects (got 1k+ stars)...

I have slightly less time now but I have always been more interested in development side rather than CP.

This is my GitHub if you want to check it out!

Anmol-Baranwal (Anmol Baranwal) · GitHub

💜 Loves Open Source 😄 Software Developer (200+ PRs) 🔖 Technical Writer (500k+ Reads) 🔥 Open for Collab - Anmol-Baranwal

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ChrisX001001 • Oct 25

How do you make money? Because I can code I just need to profit from it lol

Anmol Baranwal • Oct 25

I’ve never done anything just for the money. All the time I spent in open source, I never once thought about getting something back from the community, like a job or anything.

You can either do freelancing, technical writing or try Indie Hacking. There are bunch of things you can do to earn money using coding but only a very few would match your style.

ChrisX001001 • Oct 25

Thank you :) I am trying freelancing but hard to get gigs and they don't pay much.. you are completely right about everything though.

Vignesh S • Oct 25

Which GitHub link are u talking about?

Blessing Emejulu • Oct 26

Thanks so much. I will check out the sheets and start leetcoding.

Mostafa • Oct 25

Keep going 💪

Mohammed Awwal Mohammed • Oct 26

This is beautiful. I'm off to go check leetcode out this instant.

amitovhal2 • Oct 25

Great Article; I felt the same when I first encountered the leetcode problems,
Also, great Excel. If it's okay, can you please share the sheet for anyone to use and track their progress? I didn't get where exactly or how it marked the self-solved problem.

Davinderpal Singh Rehal • Oct 26

Thank you, you should be able to download a copy of the sheet and use it for yourself.

I am using a boolean marking system for all the questions I encounter. What I usually do, say if the problem is Two Sum, it is marked as an easy question so on my timer I will set 25 minutes and if I am able to solve it within the time limit then I will look at the topics that belong to the question which is Array and Hash Table, so in my sheet I will create new row with the name of the problem, then in the column for Array and Hash Table I will mark them as a Yes. If I was not able to solve the question in 25 min or I had to look at the hints or a YouTube video then I would mark those columns as No.

I hope that makes sense, in this way I am able to see which topics I need to concentrate on more.

Arunvasu mr • Oct 25

Have you followed any particular DSA courses at the beginning?

Davinderpal Singh Rehal • Oct 26

I have tried AlgoExpert and NeetCode, out of which I recommend NeetCode more, though I recommend just doing a list from LeetCode and go deeper in topics that you have problems with. I don't have a particular course.