overfullstack / ds-algo-starter

Starter for practicing ds-algo

Ds Algo Starter

Setup

• Install Java 16 (or the latest) on your machine.
  • Windows
    • Install Chocolatey
    • choco install openjdk
  • Mac/Linux
    • Install SDKMAN
    • Install your favorite JDK flavor
• Clone/Fork ds-algo-starter
  • Run this ./gradlew clean build in the ds-algo-starter root directory. It should SUCCEED.

Practice

• Your solutions goes into folder src/main/java/ and corresponding tests goes into src/test/kotlin/ with same package name.
• Test First approach.
  • Start understanding the problem by thinking about test-cases that include positive tests, negative tests, corner cases etc
• Run tests using gradle as below

./gradlew test --tests [full-name-of-test-class]

For example

./gradlew test --tests leetcode.arrays.TopKFrequentWordsTest

VS Code setup

Note: Below setup can be done in your free time. Don't get blocked by this. You may start coding with your IDEs initially if this is taking time

• Get rid of IDEs and use a text editor. Personal recommendation: VS Code
  • Setup Java development on VS Code
  • Install this VS Code Extension for writing tests in Kotlin