I suggest that you avoid looking for the solution to HackerRank problems at all costs, as it will be detrimental to your development as a programmer.
The thing is, you won’t always have the option to look for the solution to a problem once you’re working as a software engineer—it’s perfectly permissible to look things up as you work, but it’s unlikely that you’ll find the exact solution to the problem you’re working on on Google. Instead, you need raw problem-solving skills and technical proficiency, which you won’t develop if you’re constantly leaning on other people for the final answer.
Instead of searching for specific solutions to specific problems, seek out the principles behind entire categories of solutions by putting the problem aside and finding resources that will increase your theoretical knowledge.Read more
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