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| Explain Singleton Design pattern in javascript? | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Explain Observer Design pattern in javascript? | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Explain Module Design pattern in javascript? | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| What’s the difference between imperative and declarative programming? | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| What happens if you assign a variable without a keyword? | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| How Does a Function Expression Differ from a Function Declaration? | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Why Does 018 Minus 017 Equal 3? | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Why does 0.1 + 0.2 === 0.3 return false? | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Why is Math.max() smaller than Math.min()? | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Write a program that plays Battle Ship against human opponents. It takes coordinates as input and outputs whether that was a hit or not and its own shot’s coordinates. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a program that plays Rock, Paper, Scissors better than random against a human. Try to exploit that humans are very bad at generating random numbers. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a program that plays Hangman as good as possible. For example you can use a large dictionary like this and select the letter that excludes most words that are still possible solutions. Try to make the program as efficient as possible, i.e. don’t scan the whole dictionary in every turn. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a Tetris clone | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a Memory game. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a program that displays a bouncing ball. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Given a set of d-dimensional rectangular boxes, write a program that computes the volume of their union. Start with 2D and work your way up. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Implement a van Emde Boas tree. Compare it with your previous search tree implementations. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a function that multiplies two matrices together. Make it as efficient as you can and compare the performance to a polished linear algebra library for your language. You might want to read about Strassen’s algorithm and the effects CPU caches have. Try out different matrix layouts and see what happens. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Given two strings, write a program that outputs the shortest sequence of character insertions and deletions that turn one string into the other. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Given an array with numbers, write a program that efficiently answers queries of the form: “Which is the nearest larger value for the number at position i?”, where distance is the difference in array indices. For example in the array [1,4,3,2,5,7], the nearest larger value for 4 is 5. After linear time preprocessing you should be able to answer queries in constant time. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Given two strings, write a program that efficiently finds the longest common subsequence. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Compare the performance of insertion, deletion and search on your unbalanced search tree with your balanced search tree and a sorted list. Think about good input sequences. If you implemented an (a,b)-tree, think about good values of a and b. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Implement a balanced binary search tree of your choice. I like (a,b)-trees best. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Implement an unbalanced binary search tree. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Implement a binary heap. Once using a list as the base data structure and once by implementing a pointer-linked binary tree. Use it for implementing heap-sort. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| If you chose your growth right in the previous problem, you typically won’t allocate very often. However, adding to a big list sometimes consumes considerable time. That might be problematic in some applications. Instead try allocating new chunks of memory for new items. So when your list is full and the user wants to add something, allocate a new chunk of 100 elements instead of copying all elements over to a new large chunk. Think about where to do the book-keeping about which chunks you have. Different book keeping strategies can quite dramatically change the performance characteristics of your list. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Improve your previous implementation such that an arbitrary number of elements can be stored in your list. You can for example allocate bigger and bigger chunks of memory as your list grows, copy the old elements over and release the old storage. You should probably also release this memory eventually if your list shrinks enough not to need it anymore. Think about how much bigger the new chunk of memory should be so that your performance won’t be killed by allocations. Increasing the size by 1 element for example is a bad idea. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Implement your list interface using a fixed chunk of memory, say an array of size 100. If the user wants to add more stuff to your list than fits in your memory you should produce some kind of error, for example you can throw an exception if your language supports that. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Think of a good interface for a list. What operations do you typically need? You might want to investigate the list interface in your language and in some other popular languages for inspiration. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a program that finds the longest palindromic substring of a given string. Try to be as efficient as possible! | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a program that automatically converts English text to Morse code and vice versa. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a program that automatically generates essays for you. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a function that generates a DOT representation of a graph. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Implement a data structure for graphs that allows modification (insertion, deletion). It should be possible to store values at edges and nodes. It might be easiest to use a dictionary of (node, edgelist) to do this. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a program that takes the duration of a year (in fractional days) for an imaginary planet as an input and produces a leap-year rule that minimizes the difference to the planet’s solar year. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a program that outputs all possibilities to put + or - or nothing between the numbers 1,2,…,9 (in this order) such that the result is 100. For example 1 + 2 + 3 - 4 + 5 + 6 + 78 + 9 = 100. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write function that translates a text to Pig Latin and back. English is translated to Pig Latin by taking the first letter of every word, moving it to the end of the word and adding ‘ay’. “The quick brown fox” becomes “Hetay uickqay rownbay oxfay”. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a function that takes a list of strings an prints them, one per line, in a rectangular frame. For example the list ["Hello", "World", "in", "a", "frame"] gets printed as: ********* * Hello * * World * * in * * a * * frame * ********* | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Implement binary search. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Implement the following sorting algorithms: Selection sort, Insertion sort, Merge sort, Quick sort, Stooge Sort. Check Wikipedia for descriptions. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a function that takes a list of numbers, a starting base b1 and a target base b2 and interprets the list as a number in base b1 and converts it into a number in base b2 (in the form of a list-of-digits). So for example [2,1,0] in base 3 gets converted to base 10 as [2,1]. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write functions that add, subtract, and multiply two numbers in their digit-list representation (and return a new digit list). If you’re ambitious you can implement Karatsuba multiplication. Try different bases. What is the best base if you care about speed? If you couldn’t completely solve the prime number exercise above due to the lack of large numbers in your language, you can now use your own library for this task. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a function that takes a number and returns a list of its digits. So for 2342 it should return [2,3,4,2]. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a function that computes the list of the first 100 Fibonacci numbers. The first two Fibonacci numbers are 1 and 1. The n+1-st Fibonacci number can be computed by adding the n-th and the n-1-th Fibonacci number. The first few are therefore 1, 1, 1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+3=5, 3+5=8. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a function that rotates a list by k elements. For example [1,2,3,4,5,6] rotated by two becomes [3,4,5,6,1,2]. Try solving this without creating a copy of the list. How many swap or move operations do you need? | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a function that merges two sorted lists into a new sorted list. [1,4,6],[2,3,5] → [1,2,3,4,5,6]. You can do this quicker than concatenating them followed by a sort. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a function that combines two lists by alternatingly taking elements, e.g. [a,b,c], [1,2,3] → [a,1,b,2,c,3]. | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a function that concatenates two lists. [a,b,c], [1,2,3] → [a,b,c,1,2,3] | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write a function on_all that applies a function to every element of a list. Use it to print the first twenty perfect squares. The perfect squares can be found by multiplying each natural number with itself. The first few perfect squares are 1*1= 1, 2*2=4, 3*3=9, 4*4=16. Twelve for example is not a perfect square because there is no natural number m so that m*m=12. (This question is tricky if your programming language makes it difficult to pass functions as arguments.) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Write three functions that compute the sum of the numbers in a list: using a for-loop, a while-loop and recursion. (Subject to availability of these constructs in your language of choice.) | 0 | 0 | 0 |