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Exercise: Sort Animals by Age

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Python Coding Interviews: Tips & Best Practices James Uejio 08:00

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Overview

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How to Stand Out in a Python Coding Interview (Overview) 03:27

range() vs enumerate() 05:20

Exercise: Fizz Buzz List 08:00

List Comprehensions and Built-In Functions on Lists 08:02

print() and breakpoint() 05:00

F-Strings 03:22

Exercise: Sort Animals by Age 08:00

Generators 04:08

Dictionaries and collections.defaultdict 08:12

collections.Counter 05:51

collections.deque 03:48

collections.namedtuple 03:16

Exercise: Group Words by Length 08:00

Exercise: Top Three Letters 08:00

string Module 05:48

itertools Module 03:48

Exercise: Unique Pairs 08:00

functools Module 05:20

Exercise: Reduce to a Product 08:00

doctest Module and assert Statements 07:42

Easier Interview Question 09:31

Exercise: Majority Element Indexes 08:00

Medium Interview Question 17:58

Hard Interview Question (Brute Force) 08:10

Hard Interview Question (Suboptimal Solution) 09:00

Hard Interview Question (Optimal Solution & PriorityQueue) 11:36

Python Coding Interviews: Tips & Best Practices (Quiz) 10:30

How to Stand Out in a Python Coding Interview (Summary) 02:25

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