from Gergely Orosz | by Gergely Orosz

Similar experience. Dynamic programming is something you don’t need on the job, yet it’s one of the few ways to stand out on the coding interview at Big Tech (helped me go from a “yes” to a “strong yes” as I later learned). Not embracing, just observing (and benefitted from it) t.co/gsQGkl8twl

It was also one of the hardest concepts for me to understand, and be able to code by myself. If you can code up the knapsack problem (and understand how it works), you’re almost there. A good summary: t.co/RQmUVuDhUI

As with anything coding, videos/tutorials is a start, but practicing yourself, and debugging your code, step by step is how you learn. Pen + paper and lots of sketching out is what helped me “get” it. I don’t know any shortcut.