2025-05-19 11:51:15
Hello!
It's mid-May, hey hey! I hope you had a good week. I'm in the thick of new baby times still, but slowly coming up for air.
Let's read!
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I've been in a funk this week. I think I'm impatient with how long recovery takes from major surgery/giving birth/all that jazz. I've been through this before, so I know that it's normal to take a while. I should understand that both my body and my brain need time to recover.
But... I miss coding, and being creative, and making things in general. And unfortunately, when my loving family gives me time to do those things, all I can think about is that I should be cleaning something, or catching up on sleep, or taking care of my babies, and I end up spiraling around that. It's annoying.
Anyway, there's no solution here except to wait it out, give myself some grace, and enjoy some newborn cuddles (which are pretty fun, I gotta admit). This really is a time period that not enough people talk about!
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Last week, I had you add operators to make a valid expression! Y'all did awesome David, Ten, Kasia, Muhammad, Neha, and Elke!
This week's question:
Write a function that draws an ASCII art cube of given height n.
Example:
> drawCube(2)
"
+----+
/ /|
+----+ |
| | +
| |/
+----+
"
> drawCube(4)
"
+--------+
/ /|
/ / |
+--------+ |
| | |
| | +
| | /
| |/
+--------+
"
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That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and look at the clouds!
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cassidoo
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2025-05-12 12:23:00
Helllloooo!
I hope your week was a good one. Mine was packed with sleepless nights, but good days. And Happy Mother's Day to all of the moms and mom-figures out there! Let's go!
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I had a bit of mental space this week to write about my second c-section experience! It's kind of a graphic one, as a warning, but if you or anyone you know might be getting a c-section (or two) at some point, it could be a useful read! Beyond that... it's been very hectic on my end still getting used to having two kiddos around, but I'm grateful.
Also, thanks Stephen for the shoutout in your blog! I love seeing when folks redo their portfolios.
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Last week, I had you return string prefixes. I made some sleepy typos in the examples, thanks for your patience y'all! Anyway, good work Jeremias, ashuzon, David, Ten, Ramsés, Muhammad, Leo, Joey, Kracekumar, Kasia, Prashil, Elke, and Neha!
This week's question:
Given two integers origin and target, add operators in the origin number to make it equal target, if possible. You can return just one, or all possibilities for this!
Examples:
> addOperators(123, 6)
> ["1*2*3", "1+2+3"]
> addOperators(3456237490, 9191)
> [] // none possible
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That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and lean on your community!
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cassidoo
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2025-05-05 13:29:00
Hey friends!
I hope you had a good week! Mine was very tiring with a brand new baby at home, but good. Let's gooo!
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Welp, I've finished week 1 of being a parent of TWO babies. Whew. It's been exhausting, but also somewhat easier than I expected? I think experience really does help. We're not as stressed about funky noises or anything, and we know how to burp a baby and change a baby and... generally how to keep one alive.
...But also we have a toddler at the same time.
Anyway. I'm in the trenches over here, but hanging in there. My newborn is chilling watching me write this, and I can say with certainty that all of the pains of pregnancy, the c-section, and the hormonal swings are worth it.
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Last week, I had you compress an array of characters! Good work Kracekumar, Kyle, Neha, Miguel, Ross, Austin, Andrew, Ashuzon, Roodz, David, Muhammad, Ten, Jeremias, and Danny!
This week's question:
Write a function that takes a list of strings and returns the longest string that is a prefix of at least two strings in the list.
Examples:
longestCommonPrefix(["flower","flow","flight"])
"flow"
longestCommonPrefix(["dog","racecar","car"])
""
longestCommonPrefix(["interstellar","internet","interval"])
"inter"
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That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and treasure your sleep!
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cassidoo
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2025-04-28 13:13:17
Hey friends!
Assuming all has gone well since I hit the "schedule" button on this issue... I just gave birth! Ahh! Baby! But there's still stuff to leeeearn!
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I... just had a baby!! So this is gonna be short because I've now got a brand-spankin'-new kid to keep alive. As I write this, before actually giving birth, I'm nervous and excited. A friend of mine asked the (very nerdy) question, "if your baby were a React component what would it be?" and I said, "whatever it is, I am ready to unmount it," because oh my word, these final days of pregnancy are HARD. So, onwards and upwards to some sleepless nights, but with a little less physical strain (we hope), ha!
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Last week, I had you calculate ingredient amounts for a recipe! I got as many submissions as I could pre-baby so if I missed ya, sorry about that! That being said, really great job Neha, Leyan, Ten, Miguel, Muhammad, Emeka, Dave, Andrew, Chase, Austin, David, Kyle, Elke, Chris, Kracekumar, Ross, Nick, and John!
This week's question:
Given an array of characters chars, compress it such that consecutive duplicate characters are replaced with the character followed by the count of duplicates. If the count is 1, omit it.
Examples:
> compress(["a", "b", "b", "b", "c"])
> ["a", "b", "3", "c"]
> compress(["a", "a", "b", "b", "c", "c", "c"])
> ["a", "2", "b", "2", "c", "3"]
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That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and give yourself some grace!
Special thanks to IceSloth, Ezell, Sebastián, Ben, Kinetic Labs, and Marta for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!
cassidoo
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2025-04-21 14:26:28
Hey friends!
If you celebrate it, Happy Easter! Or Passover! Or mid-April! Let's learn.
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I am, as of writing, officially on maternity leave! I'm due to give birth this week and it's kind of blowing my mind that by the time the next issue of this comes out, I'll have another little human in my life.
That being said, it was a mad rush to "the finish line" to get stuff done at work before I was officially out!
And one more personal thing, I finished up working with Stack Overflow on their newsletter, blog, and podcast! End of an era blog post is here. Good ending, good timing with a new kiddo, and onwards and upwards!
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Last week, I had you sum a connected path in a grid! Awesome job Muhammad, Ten, Kyle, Nick, Saleh, and Neha!
This week's question:
Given an array of objects representing ingredients (each with a name and amount per serving), and a target number of servings, write a function to calculate the required amount of each ingredient for the target servings. Return the results as an array of objects with name and amount. Can you do this in less than 5 lines? In one?
Example:
const ingredients = [
{ name: "flour", amount: 200 }, // 200g per
{ name: "sugar", amount: 100 }, // 100g per
{ name: "eggs", amount: 2 } // 2 eggs per
];
const targetServings = 3;
> calculateIngredients(ingredients, targetServings);
> [
{ name: "flour", amount: 600 },
{ name: "sugar", amount: 300 },
{ name: "eggs", amount: 6 }
]
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(you might see some repeat questions for the next few weeks because... new baby)
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That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and see ya on the other side!
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cassidoo
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2025-04-14 11:45:51
Hola hola!
We made it to mid-April, where does the time go?? I hope you had a good week. Let's get learnin'!
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I pumped out a bunch of content this past week!
For work, I morphed a post about MCP that I wrote for my own blog last week into something a bit more business-y, and shipped the latest episode of The Download!
I also blogged a bunch of other stuff:
Anyway, for the 8th (!) newsletter anniversary raffle last week, winners will be pinged this week! Thanks for entering, y'all!
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Last week, I had you generate Leyland numbers. Ya did great David, Muhammad, Elke, Ten, Austin, Jeremias, Patrycja, Nick, Levi, and Neha!
This week's question:
Given a 2D grid of integers, find the largest sum of any connected path of cells. A path consists of horizontally or vertically adjacent cells (no diagonals) and cannot reuse cells. Return the largest sum.
Examples:
const grid1 = [
[1, 2, 3],
[4, 5, 6],
[7, 8, 9]
];
const grid2 = [
[5, 3],
[2, 8]
];
largestPathSum(grid1)
> 45 // (1 → 2 → 3 → 6 → 9 → 8 → 7 → 4 → 5)
largestPathSum(grid2)
> 18 // (5 → 3 → 8 → 2)
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That's all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and get the rest you need!
Special thanks to IceSloth, Ezell, Sebastián, Ben, Kinetic Labs, and Marta for supporting my Patreon and this newsletter!
cassidoo
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