DEV Community: Mahima Singh

Solved 3 Questions in LeetCode Biweekly Contest

Mahima Singh — Sat, 02 Oct 2021 16:37:32 +0000

Though it's a small achievement, I wanted to share here.
Also, I need to improve upon the time that I take to solve them. I took nearly 1hr 10 minutes to solve these three (was unnecessarily stuck in the third question) but I believe it can be solved much faster.

Next Target: Improving my speed, being consistent in solving 3 questions.

P.S. Completed 200 questions on LeetCode.

#Day 44-45: LeetCode LL, Codechef Long Challenge etc

Mahima Singh — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 19:34:37 +0000

Yesterday, I had solved 8 easy SLL questions from LeetCode. I had planned to solve a few medium question today but I was too engrossed in solving the CodeChef Long Challenge Questions.
I have solved only 2 questions completely well today (was able to solve them instantly within the first hour itself) but I am stuck in the second subtask of 'Interesting XOR' question. Total score now is just 230.
Also, I as a participant of SpringfCode, have submited my solution on the problem that was given to us today related to String.

Summary of what I did so far

Mahima Singh — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:55:56 +0000

I was inactive for a while here so I shall continue writing about it from the day I stopped posting i.e. day 35 from tomorrow.

Summary of what all I did in these days:

Participant in GSSOC 2021
Volunteered for preparing a ppt on "Basics of JAVA" for GirlsCodeIt
Star 2 at Codechef. I try solving questions on this platform now.
Registered for various upcoming events like Google Kickstart, Makeathon by American Express, Coderita 2.0 by GFG.
For the upcoming events I have now switched to Leetcode.
Started working on my android application.
Participant in SpringOfCode by CodeWarriors.

#Day 35-43: 100 days of Code

Mahima Singh — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:24:54 +0000

I finally received my Hacktoberfest 2020 swags on 18th Jan.

Also, I was thinking of making an android app which uses ML and Database to elevate my knowledge in android developement field. After days of work, I have come up with an idea but I am a bit insecure about the ML part. Hence, I am working on it these days.
My progress in DSA isn't much great but I make sure to solve atleast 1 question a day. Grokking Algorithm book is really really helpful in strenthening my basics.

#Day 33 & 34: 100 days of code

Mahima Singh — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 17:57:28 +0000

I took a break from DSA for these two days and was studying about JS. I have started making a photography portfolio website for my friend. He has really got some awesome photography skills. I will attach the progress here as I make it.
Also, as GSSOC is approaching, I am planning to take part in it this summer. I wanted to do some intership this summer break but to be honest I am still unable to solve the questions of DSA well. So I think this open source event will be of some help to me. i am really looking forward to it.

#Day 31 & 32: DSA Learning Series Week-2 solved 3 problems.

Mahima Singh — Sat, 16 Jan 2021 17:12:36 +0000

I have solved just 3 questions and I'm stuck in 2 problems namely: Matched brackets and Not all flavour. I'll solve it by tomorrow for sure. I'm gonna rack my brain until I find the solution. I was a little disappointed as earlier I was unable to solve even a single question related to DSA but now I'm able to solve a few. The progress is slow and steady but I will make sure to be consistent.

#Day 29 & 30: Solving CodeChef DSA learning series Day-3&4

Mahima Singh — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 17:18:05 +0000

I had completed solving all the questions of the Week-1 of DSA Learning Series yesterday and today I've solved 3 questions of Week-2.
Today's lesson: Check your input order while solving. I solved a question but I took the order of inputs wrong and wasted like 20 minutes trying to figure out the issue.

#Day 28: CodeChef DSA Learning Series Day-2

Mahima Singh — Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:31:31 +0000

Today, I solved 4 questions from the DSA Learning Series Contest-1. I was happy with my Lapindromes solution but I guess it was exceeding the time limit because it showed the wrong solution when I submitted. I was unable to find an optimal solution for it today. I'll try solving it again tomorrow.

#Day 24-27: Learning pygame and started Codechef journey

Mahima Singh — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 17:16:56 +0000

Hello there!

I was quite busy due to my class work and could not postmy update here.

As I know Python, I thought its application will be helpful. While looking for Pyhton related projects, pygame interested me. I saw various videos on Youtube and the one of 'Flappy Bird' by Clear Code seemed really beginner friendly. He has explained everything so well. I spent an entire day making pixel arts for sprites. I got an idea from the anime "Demon Slayer". There is a character called "Zenitsu" who is afraid of literally everything. XD So I have replaced Flappy bird and the pipes with Zenitsu and spiders respectively.
I will shared the result here once I have completed it fully well.

Also, today in order to get used to Codechef platform, I've started solving DSA learning Series.

#Day 23: Made a Contact Form page using Html and CSS

Mahima Singh — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 18:56:58 +0000

There was a typo in the form name. I have corrected it now and it works fine.

#Day 22: HackerRank Gold Badge/ 5 star ⭐ for PS

Mahima Singh — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 18:20:45 +0000

Finally, I achieved the Gold badge on HackerRank. I must say the questions here are good for beginners to know the new concepts. The questions are not explained so well but the discussion forum helps you to learn a lot from others.

Few problems of Medium and Hard level are still left to be completed.
Now I'll switch to LeetCode and Codechef.

#Day 20 & 21: Hackerrank Waiter problem and Units in CSS

Mahima Singh — Mon, 04 Jan 2021 18:52:08 +0000

Yesterday, I solved the Waiter problem related to Stack on HackerRank. The question was much more difficult to understand than to solve it. Even the example had a typo which confused me a lot. It took me the entire evening to solve that question.

Today I studied about the Absolute and Relative Units in CSS and so different examples for each unit. w3schools aids a lot in learning all the small little details. I'm enjoying learning Web Dev. It is so interesting.