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OOP & Classes medium

Linked list reversal

Implement a singly linked list and a function to reverse it in place.

linked-list OOP pointers

Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Container With Most Water

Given an array of heights, find the maximum area between two vertical lines that can hold water.

two-pointers array maximization

Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Sort Colors (Dutch National Flag)

Implement the Dutch National Flag algorithm to sort an array of 0, 1, 2 in one pass.

in-place two-pointers sorting

Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Character Replacement Window

Given a string and a number k, find the length of the longest substring that can be made uniform by replacing at most k characters.

sliding-window two-pointers strings

Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

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.

sliding-window two-pointers hash-map

Two Pointers & Sliding Window medium

Count Nice Subarrays

Given an array of integers, count the number of contiguous subarrays that contain exactly k odd numbers.

sliding-window two-pointers subarray

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