Lowest Common Ancestor of a Binary Tree Given a binary tree, find the lowest common ancestor (LCA) of two given nodes in the tree. According to the definition of LCA on Wikipedia: “The lowest common ancestor is defined between two nodes v and w as the lowest node in T […]
A strobogrammatic number is a number that looks the same when rotated 180 degrees (looked at upside down). Write a function to determine if a number is strobogrammatic. The number is represented as a string. For example, the numbers “69”, “88”, and “818” are all strobogrammatic. class Solution […]
There are a total of n courses you have to take, labeled from 0 to n – 1. Some courses may have prerequisites, for example to take course 0 you have to first take course 1, which is expressed as a pair: [0,1] Given the total number of courses and a list of prerequisite pairs, return the […]
Course Schedule There are a total of n courses you have to take, labeled from 0 to n – 1. Some courses may have prerequisites, for example to take course 0 you have to first take course 1, which is expressed as a pair: [0,1] Given the total number of courses and a list of prerequisite pairs, […]
Wildcard Matching Implement wildcard pattern matching with support for ‘?’ and ‘*’. ‘?’ Matches any single character. ‘*’ Matches any sequence of characters (including the empty sequence). The matching should cover the entire input string (not partial). The function prototype should be: bool isMatch(const char *s, const char *p) Some examples: isMatch(“aa”,”a”) → […]
Kth Smallest Element in a BST Given a binary search tree, write a function kthSmallest to find the kth smallest element in it. Note: You may assume k is always valid, 1 ≤ k ≤ BST’s total elements. Follow up: What if the BST is modified (insert/delete operations) often and you need to […]
Given a sorted integer array without duplicates, return the summary of its ranges. For example, given [0,1,2,4,5,7], return [“0->2″,”4->5″,”7”]. Credits: Special thanks to @jianchao.li.fighter for adding this problem and creating all test cases. class Solution { public: vector<string> summaryRanges(vector<int>& nums) { vector<string> ans; string range; if(nums.size() == 0) […]
Sliding Window Maximum Given an array nums, there is a sliding window of size k which is moving from the very left of the array to the very right. You can only see the k numbers in the window. Each time the sliding window moves right by one position. For example, Given nums = [1,3,-1,-3,5,3,6,7], and k = 3. Window […]
The Skyline Problem A city’s skyline is the outer contour of the silhouette formed by all the buildings in that city when viewed from a distance. Now suppose you are given the locations and height of all the buildings as shown on a cityscape photo (Figure A), write a program […]
Word Search II Given a 2D board and a list of words from the dictionary, find all words in the board. Each word must be constructed from letters of sequentially adjacent cell, where “adjacent” cells are those horizontally or vertically neighboring. The same letter cell may not be used more […]