Some feedback from reading this card
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While a fair intro to arrays I personally feel there is a number of problems:

  • The target audience is unclear: the intro talks about arrays as if the audience has never used a programming language before. Surely that's not what leetcoders are? Then later sections miss out a lot of topics, that I would personally like to hear about.
  • Questions put after each section are often using concepts that haven't been mentioned at all, a big theme here is the "Two Pointer" trick and many require in-place operations before the "in-place" section has even been reached
  • One question that is set up to be solved by creating a new array, follows the first "In-Place" section...
  • The focus is a very much on Java, this wouldn't be much of a problem but a lot of characteristic's of Java's arrays don't apply to Python (which seems like a much more popular interview language)

In general this makes it quite frustrating. The descriptions could definitely be reworded to be more encouraging as well.

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