Break Away: Programming And Coding Interviews (Udemy.com)
A course that teaches pointers, linked lists, general programming, algorithms and recursion like no one else
Created by: Loony Corn
Last updated February 2018
What you will learn
- Know how to approach and prepare for coding interviews
- Understand pointer concepts and memory management at a very deep and fundamental level
- Tackle a wide variety of linked list problems and know how to get started when asked linked list questions as a part of interviews
- Tackle a wide variety of general pointer and string problems and know how to answer questions on them during interviews
- Tackle a wide variety of general programming problems which involve just plain logic, no standard algorithms or data structures, these help you get the details right!
How it compares
Against the other 1,182 rated Udemy courses in IT & Software on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 45% of them
- Reviews881#420 of 1,183 by number of reviews
- Length20.2 hourslonger than 88% of them
- Last updatedFebruary 2018earlier than 93% of them
Course Description
Programming interviews are like standard plays in professional sport - prepare accordingly. Don't let Programming Interview gotchas get you down!
- Programming interviews differ from real programming jobs in several important aspects, so they merit being treated differently, just like set pieces in sport.
- Just like teams prepare for their opponent's playbooks in professional sport, it makes sense for you to approach programming interviews anticipating the interviewer's playbook
- This course has been drawn by a team that has conducted hundreds of technical interviews at Google and Flipkart
What's Covered:
- Pointers: Memory layout of pointers and variables, pointer arithmetic, arrays, pointers to pointers, pointers to structures, argument passing to functions, pointer reassignment and modification - complete with visuals to help you conceptualize how things work.
- Strings: Strings, Character pointers, character arrays, null termination of strings, string.h function implementations with detailed explanations.
- Linked lists: Visualization, traversal, creating or deleting nodes, sorted merge, reversing a linked list and many many problems and solutions, doubly linked lists.
- Bit Manipulation: Work with bits and bit operations.
- Sorting and searching algorithms: Visualize how common sorting and searching algorithms work and the speed and efficiency of those algorithms
- Recursion: Master recursion with lots of practice! 8 common and uncommon recursive problems explained. Binary search, finding all subsets of a subset, finding all anagrams of a word, the infamous 8 Queens problem, executing dependent tasks, finding a path through a maze, implementing PaintFill, comparing two binary trees
- Data Structures: Understand queues, stacks, heaps, binary trees and graphs in detail along with common operations and their complexity. Includes code for every data structure along with solved interview problems based on these data structures.
- Step-by-step solutions to dozens of common programming problems: Palindromes, Game of Life, Sudoku Validator, Breaking a Document into Chunks, Run Length Encoding, Points within a distance are some of the problems solved and explained.
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
881 Reviews
Loony Corn
Loonycorn is us, Janani Ravi and Vitthal Srinivasan. Between us, we have studied at Stanford, been admitted to IIM Ahmedabad and have spent years working in tech, in the Bay Area, New York, Singapore and Bangalore.
Janani: 7 years at Google (New York, Singapore); Studied at Stanford; also worked at Flipkart and Microsoft
Vitthal: Also Google (Singapore) and studied at Stanford; Flipkart, Credit Suisse and INSEAD too
We think we might have hit upon a neat way of teaching complicated tech courses in a funny, practical, engaging way, which is why we are so excited to be here on Udemy!
We hope you will try our offerings, and think you'll like them :-)
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Reviews
By Yulia Kuzovkova on 7/26/2022
Very disappointing! Although advertised as a C course (with "some solutions given in Java"), the majority of the solutions are given in Java!!! I don't need Java and bought this course to prepare for the coding interview in C. Don't recommend buying any courses from Loony Corn (and will never take any of their courses again) as you cannot really trust their course descriptions
By Satish Mundru on 10/16/2020
Course is well structured and explained very well by examples and implementation. Course is more opted to junior to mid level however it helps to every one. I think it would be helpful to add more examples/explanation w.r.to real world scenarios.
~Thanks
By Santosh Giri Govind Marthi on 9/4/2020
Really very well laid out course for anyone who is planning to learn Data Structures. And this is a must for anyone who is preparing for interviews
By Sweekritee Singh on 8/3/2020
All courses of Loony Corn I have done till date are awesome
By Sabal Prasain on 5/27/2020
I am having an amazing experience taking this course !
By Pratik Chougule on 4/14/2020
its too slow, doesnt have much interactive diagrams as told
By Rushali Agrawal on 4/12/2020
Few hacks and tricks on how to approach a problem during coding would be helpful
By Adrian Marcelo Morales on 4/11/2020
Very good.. very very good. A lot of examples and it teaches you the fundamentals of programming, it's helping me to understand better all the languages I know.
By Torrence Payseno on 3/19/2020
good introduction. I am excited to continue into the rest of the course
By Madhusudan on 1/11/2020
The author does a good job of explaining the concepts in a clear and concise manner, and neatly follows it up with problems to highlight the real world applications of the DS/algorithms.
I only wish the author covered topics as Dynamic Programming, Backtracking and NP problems in a similar manner.
By Greg Parsons on 11/18/2019
This is the real deal. Programmer with 7 years of experience. They are very knowledgeable and their content shows.
Thank you!
By Josejohny on 10/16/2019
The course gave me a clear understanding of data structure and algorithms....And broadend my knowledge.
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Overall Score : 90 / 100












