Wooooo it’s 2022!
I hope your end to the year was a good one. It’s been a rough time in the pandemic, but I’m still optimistic that this’ll be a better year than the last!
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Web links of the week
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Optimize local dev environments for better onboarding
Best practices for writing code comments
JWT explained as Formulas
Something that interested me this week
I purposely did very little this past week. I watched some K-dramas like When the Camellia Blooms and The Silent Sea, and some funny shows like Derry Girls and The Chair. I also read a little and did crosswords. It was great. I’ll… get back to my emails this week.
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Interview question of the week
Last week, I had you set up the ordering of fireworks! Awesome job and happy new year to Topher, Paul, Les, Adam, Ivana, and Ten!
This week’s question:
Given a list of Point objects (where a Point object has a name, and a list of names it is connected to), a starting Point object, and an ending Point object, return a possible path between the two Points. If there are multiple paths, return the shortest one. If there is no path, return “no path”.
Example:
listOfPoints = [
{ name: "A", connections: ["B", "C"] },
{ name: "B", connections: ["A", "E"] },
{ name: "C", connections: ["A", "D"] },
{ name: "D", connections: ["C"] },
{ name: "E", connections: ["B", "F"] },
{ name: "F", connections: ["E"] },
]
$ pathBetweenPoints(listOfPoints, "A", "F")
$ A -> B -> E -> F
$ pathBetweenPoints(listOfPoints, "D", "B")
$ D -> C -> A -> B
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Joke
Why don’t aliens come to our solar system?
They looked up reviews and it only had one star.
That’s all for now, folks! Have a great week. Be safe, make good choices, and good luck on the start of 2022!
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