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Lists & Arrays easy

Move Zeros to the End

Reorder a list in-place, pushing all zeros to the end while preserving the order of non-zero numbers.

lists in-place two-pointer
+10 pts 15m
Lists & Arrays easy

Interleave Two Lists

Write a function that interleaves two lists element by element, preserving order.

lists merge indexing
+10 pts 10m
Lists & Arrays easy

All Unique Values Keep Order

Remove duplicates from a list, keeping only the first occurrence of each value while preserving relative order.

deduplicate order list
+10 pts 15m
Lists & Arrays easy

Move Zeros to End

Rearrange a list by moving all zeros to the end while preserving the relative order of non-zero elements.

list in-place two-pointer
+10 pts 15m
Lists & Arrays easy

Difference of Two Lists

Write a function that returns items in list a that are not in list b, preserving order and duplicates.

lists difference counting
+8 pts 10m
Lists & Arrays easy

Wave sort array

Given a list of integers, reorder it into a wave pattern where elements alternate down-up, and return the new list.

sorting swap rearrangement
+10 pts 15m
Lists & Arrays easy

Move Zeroes

Implement move_zeroes(nums) that in-place moves all zeros to the end while maintaining the order of non-zero elements.

arrays in-place two-pointers
+10 pts 15m
Lists & Arrays easy

Sort array by parity

Given a list of integers, return a new list with all evens first and odds last, preserving original relative order.

sorting arrays two-pointers
+10 pts 15m
Lists & Arrays easy

Reorder list halves

Implement reorder_list(nums) that returns the first half followed by the reversed second half.

lists slicing reversal
+8 pts 10m
Lists & Arrays easy

Convert Binary Number List

Given a list of bits (0s and 1s) in most-significant-first order, return the equivalent integer value.

binary lists conversion
+8 pts 10m
Lists & Arrays easy

One Hot Encode Labels

Given a list of categorical labels, return a list of one-hot encoded vectors based on the sort order of unique labels.

lists encoding matrices
+10 pts 10m

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Lists & Arrays — Python coding challenges

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