Algorithm Interview Questions

1. Dynamic Programming

No. 03 - Maximum Sum of All Sub-arrays
A sub-array has one number of some continuous numbers. Given an integer array with positive numbers and negative numbers, get the maximum sum of all sub-arrays. Time complexity should be O(n).

For example, in the array {1, -2, 3, 10, -4, 7, 2, -5}, its sub-array {3, 10, -4, 7, 2} has the maximum sum 18.

Given an unsorted array, find the max length of subsequence in which the numbers are in incremental order.

For example: If the input array is {7, 2, 3, 1, 5, 8, 9, 6}, a subsequence with the most numbers in incremental order is {2, 3, 5, 8, 9} and the expected output is 5.


Implement a function which gets the edit distance of two input strings. There are three types of edit operations: insertion, deletion and substitution. Edit distance is the minimal number of edit operations to modify a string from one to the other.

Please implement a function which gets the minimal number of coins, whose value is v1, v2, …, vn, to make change for an amount of money with value t. Any coin with value vi may duplicate for any times to make change.
For example, the minimal number of coins to make change for 15 out of a set of coins with value 1, 3, 9, 10 is 3. We can choose two coins with value 3 and a coin with value 9. The number of coins for other choices should be greater than 3.

There are n houses built in a line, each of which contains some value in it. A thief is going to steal the maximal value in these houses, but he cannot steal in two adjacent houses because the owner of a stolen house will tell his two neighbors on the left and right side. What is the maximal stolen value?

No. 49 - Longest Substring without Duplication
Given a string, please get the length of the longest substring which does not have duplicated characters. Supposing all characters in the string are in the range from ‘a’ to ‘z’.

No. 52 - Maximal Product when Cutting Rope
Given a rope with length n, how to cut the rope into m parts with length n[0], n[1], ...,n[m-1], in order to get the maximal product of n[0]*n[1]* ... *n[m-1]? We have to cut once at least. Additionally, the length of the whole length of the rope, as well as the length of each part, are in integer value.

No. 56 - Maximal Value of Gifts
A board has n*m cells, and there is a gift with some value (value is greater than 0) in every cell. You can get gifts starting from the top-left cell, and move right or down in each step, and finally reach the cell at the bottom-right cell. What’s the maximal value of gifts you can get from the board?


2. Search and Sort 

No. 22 - Turning Number in an Array
Turning number is the maximum number in an array which increases and then decreases. This kind of array is also named unimodal array. Please write a function which gets the index of the turning number in such an array.
 
For example, the turning number in array {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6} is 10, so its index 5 is the expected output.

No. 47 - Search in a Rotation of an Array
When some elements at the beginning of an array are moved to the end, it gets a rotation of the original array. Please implement a function to search a number in a rotation of an increasingly sorted array. Assume there are no duplicated numbers in the array.

For example, array {3, 4, 5, 1, 2} is a rotation of array {1, 2, 3, 4, 5}. If the target number to be searched is 4, the index of the number 4 in the rotation 1 should be returned. If the target number to be searched is 6, -1 should be returned because the number does not exist in the rotated array.

No. 57 - Integer Identical to Index
Integers in an array are unique and increasingly sorted. Please write a function/method to find an integer from the array who equals to its index. For example, in the array {-3, -1, 1, 3, 5}, the number 3 equals its index 3.
 

3. Backtracking

No. 34 - String Path in Matrix
How to implement a function to check whether there is a path for a string in a matrix of characters?  It moves to left, right, up and down in a matrix, and a cell for a movement. The path can start from any entry in a matrix. If a cell is occupied by a character of a string on the path, it cannot be occupied by another character again.

No. 41 - Group of 1s in a Matrix
Given a matrix with 1s and 0s, please find the number of groups of 1s. A group is defined by horizontally or vertically adjacent 1s.

4. Bit Operation

No. 20 - Number of 1 in a Binary
Please implement a function to get the number of 1s in an integer. For example, the integer 9 is 1001 in binary, so it returns 2 since there are two bits of 1s.

No. 50 - Numbers Appearing Once
In an array, all numbers appear three times except one which only appears only once. Please find the unique number.

No. 51 - Next Number with Same Set of Digits
Given a number n, please out put all numbers with n bits of 1 in increasing order. For example, if the input is 3, the output are numbers 7, 11, 13, …

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