Minimum Days to Make Bouquets
Given bloomDay per flower, find the minimum day to make m bouquets each needing k adjacent flowers.
Minimum Limit of Balls in a Bag
Given an array of bag sizes and a number of allowed splits, find the minimum possible maximum bag size.
Permutation in String
Determine if any permutation of a shorter string appears as a contiguous substring in a longer string using an efficient sliding window.
Minimum Size Subarray Sum
Given an array of positive integers, return the minimal length of a contiguous subarray with sum at least target, or 0 if none exists.
Boats to Save People – Two Pointer
Implement a function that returns the minimum number of boats needed to rescue everyone, given a weight limit and each boat carrying at most two people.
Sum of Subarray Minimums
Given an integer array, sum the minimum of all contiguous subarrays modulo 10^9+7.
Task Scheduler Heap
Given a list of tasks and a cooldown, find the minimum number of CPU intervals needed to schedule all tasks without violating the cooldown.
Meeting Rooms II with Heaps
Given a list of meeting intervals, compute the minimum number of rooms required using a heap-based approach.
Minimum Cost to Connect Sticks
Compute the minimum total cost to connect all sticks into one stick by repeatedly combining two sticks with the smallest lengths.
Rotting Oranges Time
Given a grid of fresh, rotten, and empty cells, compute the minimum minutes until all fresh oranges rot, or -1 if some are unreachable.
Count square submatrices with all ones
Count all square submatrices consisting entirely of 1s in a binary matrix.
Largest Plus Sign
Compute the largest possible plus sign of 1s in an n x n grid with some cells set to 0.
Word Search Matrix
Given a 2D board and a word, determine if the word can be formed by sequentially adjacent cells (horizontally or vertically), without reusing cells.
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Guide: free Python coding challenges
Practice Python by solving problems
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