There are endless platforms for problem solving such as Leetcode or Codefordes etc. But honestly there is no one on entire YouTube who explains concepts in the way you do. You are like 3Blue1Brown for Algorithms and Data Structures
4 years ago
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Just discovered your channel today, saw the FFT and Big O videos. Just want to say I love the premise of the channel and am super happy to see another channel making so much use of Grant Sanderson’s manim library. This kind of content helps make education truly egalitarian, and that’s a beautiful thing.
4 years ago
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I'm a huge fan of both types. Your fundamental DSA videos are elegant and very helpful! I would love to see some coding interview questions as well, as you please. You have a beautiful way of breaking down complex concepts. It reminds me very much of 3blue1brown, and not just because of manim :)
4 years ago
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The visualizations and explanations you provide for videos regardless of it being a problem solving video or explanation on a data structure/algorithm are phenomenal. It's genuinely helped me and personally, I find the explanation videos to be more helpful as they explain the concepts in depth. I love the examples used in the end, although an idea can be using a very popular coding question to reinforce the concepts explained in the video. The question demo can be of easy difficulty (i.e the first problem explored in the recursion video). Nonetheless you're videos have been instrumental in my studies recently and I fully support your content regardless of the chosen route.
3 years ago
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Your animation and video styles are best for understanding algorithms and DS, but I'd enjoy problem solving too. Just keep creating content. You are awesome!
4 years ago | 0
I would like both. But if need one specifically then I love problem solving using code like the towers of Hanoi problem. That blew my mind. I would love videos like that...
4 years ago | 5
I would like both, perhaps in a way like Explain the concept and give typical interview problems where it has to be applied. You could do a follow up video of the solution to the problems. BTW, your video on recursion was excellent. Thanks a ton for that.
4 years ago (edited)
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i really appreciated the fft video because it dives into a pretty advanced topic and i have a hard time finding those seriously advanced topics on youtube. depth first and breadth first search are pretty simple, those feel like coding interview problems in comparison. another really interesting one would be the algorithmic internals of asymptotically fast matrix multiplication. i want nilered for advanced computer science and in the fft video you provide that.
4 years ago | 0
i don’t think they’re mutually exclusive! if anything, a discovery approach really makes fundamental algorithms have the same sense of problem solving that an interview question does
4 years ago | 0
Is there an "advanced algorithms" button? Your video on the FFT was really great and you often don't find these great explainations for more advanced algorithms (I would call it advanced because it was not part of my Intro to Algorithms class). Other algorithms might lead themselves to even greater visuals (i.e. Aho-Corasick and the corresponding FSM > abstract rewriting in a youtube video, I guess).
4 years ago | 1
It would be awesome if you could dabble into the fundamental theory of computer science. Maybe a video on polynomial reductions, or how to prove prove correctness of loop based algorithms (loop invariants). There are also really neat algorithmic topics you can try and visualize, such as greedy algorithms (scheduling problems, huffman coding would be cool) or boolean matrix multiplication and it's use in finding shortest paths in graphs. On the other hand, there are quite a few channels here on youtube that work through hard interview questions. These are nice, but they don't have the same beauty as what you've done until now. There are quite a few channels dedicated to hard (sometimes olympiad levels) math questions. An idea is to maybe cover CS olympiad questions, these are like interview questions but usually solving them nicely involves a beautiful idea.
4 years ago
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This is a really hard question to answer. Obviously I'm a bit biased as I'm still in school, maybe you can do one category one month and the other category the other month?
4 years ago | 4
Any of those options explained how you explain it would be great. But tbh, there is a lot of content about data structures and algorithms. I suggest you differentiate from the rest by creating/explaining something that not ma y have done (like a proper hard leetcode problem and the theory behind) OR curious ways of applying data structures to daily situations OR curious and real uses of these DS
4 years ago | 0
I have a problem to solve and I don't really know how to approach the split, would you mind giving me a hint? input is a binary number and I have to recursively split it in a way that all the parts are prime numbers(in binary representation) and a single part cannot be longer than 30, the output should be True if such division is possible(for ex. For 111011) else False. I couldn't find any helpful information to get me started😕
4 years ago | 1
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Question for you all: What kind of future content are you interested in most?
I'm mostly just curious since I think both types of content have value. For example, content centering around the fundamental data structures and algorithms such as the FFT, Graph Theory, DFS, and BFS videos are really timeless since when people want to search for these concepts on YouTube, over time the YouTube algorithm seems to recommend these videos since they seemed to have generated positive feedback from new viewers.
But it's also interesting because content surrounding actual problems such as the problems in the recursion video, dynamic programming, and towers of Hanoi video seem to be the videos that are most popular. My guess is these are the videos that more people want to see, but I want to be sure before putting more effort into creating that type of content.
I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments as well!
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