Today’s evening is New Year’s Eve 2016. Happy New Year 2017!!! By the way, 2017 is a prime number. The next prime will be 2027. Went ahead and took a look at the HackerRank challenge Chocolate Feast. If interested take a look at the description at the following URL: https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/chocolate-feast?utm_campaign=challenge-recommendation&utm_medium=email&utm_source=24-hour-campaign
As usual I first take a look at the Need Help? I then spend time working on 
my solution. After trying and passing the sample tests I read most of the discussions to improve on my solution and try additional tests that other fellow developers have obtained. Finally I go ahead and submit my solution. Continue reading “Chocolate Feast”
I have not solved a LeetCode challenge in a couple weeks. Went to the site and the system suggested the Valid Parentheses using the following URL: https://leetcode.com/problems/valid-parentheses/
A priority queue is an abstract data type which is like a regular queue or stack data structure, but where additionally each element has a “priority” associated with it. In a priority queue, an element with high priority is served before an element with low priority. If two elements have the same priority, they are served according to their order in the queue.
It has been a week or so since I tried a challenge in HackerRank. Between work and holidays not much spare time available. BTW Happy Holidays!!!
As I have already mentioned in a previous post, I purchased and are currently reading the book “Agile Software Development Principles, Patterns and Practices” by Robert C. Martin. I am about to start reading section 2 titled “Agile Design”.
The motivation for this entry is based on chapter 5 of the book Agile Software Development Principles, Patterns and Practices by Robert Martin. In that chapter the author writes an initial program with correct output. The issue is that it is not as simple to follow (and possibly maintain) as the final one. The final one is longer but much easier to follow.
What is Test Driven Development? Is it useful? Should I and my team make use of it?
A week or two ago, a couple engineers and I were discussing software engineering topics and the following question came up: “Would you start a software development project without requirements”? As you might expect, this is a loaded question that has no single correct answer.
In today’s world most systems are architected as a set of services implemented in different programming languages deployed on multiple hardware platforms. Often it is required for a piece of software written in a different programming language than the module it needs to interface with. I have been in situations when modules written in C# or Java had the need to interface with code written using the C programming language (typically for performance, separations of concern reasons or to allow the Java program access functionality written in a different language). 
Sherlock and The Beast is a HackerRank challenge. The name is good and the description quite amusing. Please take a look at it at the following URL: https://www.hackerrank.com/challenges/sherlock-and-the-beast?utm_campaign=challenge-recommendation&utm_medium=email&utm_source=24-hour-campaign