Given a string, find the length of the longest substring T that contains at most 2 distinct characters. For example, Given s = “eceba”, T is “ece” which its length is 3. Two pointers. i points to the head of possible string and j points to the tail of it. […]

Graph Valid Tree Given n nodes labeled from 0 to n – 1 and a list of undirected edges (each edge is a pair of nodes), write a function to check whether these edges make up a valid tree. For example: Given n = 5 and edges = [[0, 1], […]

  Encode and Decode Strings Design an algorithm to encode a list of strings to a string. The encoded string is then sent over the network and is decoded back to the original list of strings. Machine 1 (sender) has the function: string encode(vector<string> strs) { // … your code […]

Closest Binary Search Tree Value Given a non-empty binary search tree and a target value, find the value in the BST that is closest to the target. Note: Given target value is a floating point. You are guaranteed to have only one unique value in the BST that is closest […]

Basic Calculator Implement a basic calculator to evaluate a simple expression string. The expression string may contain open ( and closing parentheses ), the plus + or minus sign -, non-negative integers and empty spaces . You may assume that the given expression is always valid. Some examples: “1 + […]

There is a new alien language which uses the latin alphabet. However, the order among letters are unknown to you. You receive a list of words from the dictionary, wherewords are sorted lexicographically by the rules of this new language. Derive the order of letters in this language. For example, […]

3Sum Smaller Given an array of n integers nums and a target, find the number of index triplets i, j, k with 0 <= i < j < k < n that satisfy the condition nums[i] + nums[j] + nums[k] < target. For example, given nums = [-2, 0, 1, […]

Wiggle Sort Given an unsorted array nums, reorder it in-place such that nums[0] <= nums[1] >= nums[2] <= nums[3]…. For example, given nums = [3, 5, 2, 1, 6, 4], one possible answer is [1, 6, 2, 5, 3, 4]. sort the array, then swap each two adjacent elements. class Solution […]

Number of Islands Given a 2d grid map of ‘1’s (land) and ‘0’s (water), count the number of islands. An island is surrounded by water and is formed by connecting adjacent lands horizontally or vertically. You may assume all four edges of the grid are all surrounded by water. Example […]

Binary Tree Right Side View Given a binary tree, imagine yourself standing on the right side of it, return the values of the nodes you can see ordered from top to bottom. For example: Given the following binary tree, 1 <— / \ 2 3 <— \ \ 5 4 […]