Tracker for summer 2024 self-study for winter/summer 2025 recruiting

3/1/24 - 5/2/24:

Leetcode Medium/Hard x ~50-100

OSTEP ch. 1 → ch. 30

5/3/24:

Akuna Options 101: 1% → 22%

Computer Networking: page 1 → page 118

Leetcode Medium x2

5/4/24:

Computer Networking: page 118 → 218

Leetcode Hard: x1

OSTEP Exercises: 5.1-5.3

Networking Exercises: UDP Client/Server Demo

C++: Square Root Decomposition (Range-Sum), Factorial Template Metaprogramming

5/5/24:

OSTEP Exercises: 5.4-5.8

Leetcode Hard x1

Akuna Options 22% → 38%

OSTEP re-reading: ch. 7 - 9 (Scheduling)

C++: Fenwick Tree

5/6/24:

Leetcode Medium x4 (Floyd-Warshall, Bellman-Ford, Dijkstra, Trees)

OSTEP: ch. 10 (Multiprocessor Scheduling) AS

OSTEP review: ch 11 - 14

OSTEP exercises: 14.1 - 14.7

5/7/24:

Leetcode Hard x1, Medium x1 (Both Greedy)

Jane Street Figgie Card Game x 30 mins

Computer Networking: 218 → 278 (TCP/UDP)

5/8/24:

Leetcode Medium x2

Computer Networking re-read: 218 → 278 (Transport Layer, TCP, UDP)

Computer Networking: 278 → 380 (Network Data Plane, Router I/O, IP)

5/9/24:

Leetcode Hard x1, Medium x1

Computer Networking: 380 → 420 (Generalized Forwarding, SDNs, IP)

Codeforces Huawei Challenge: Accuracy-Preserving Summation Algorithm (#248 / 1155)

5/10/24:

Leetcode Medium x3

Codeforces Round 944 (Div. 4) (4/8 solved)

The Linux Command Line: pages 1-111

5/11/24:

Leetcode Biweekly Contest 130 (3/4 solved,)

Leetcode Hard x1

Watched: Codeforces Round 944: Solution Video

OSTEP review: ch 25 - 28 (Mutexes)

Leetcode Weekly Contest 397 (top 3% finish)

5/12/24:

Leetcode Easy x1

OSTEP review: ch 29 (concurrent data structures)

Mother's Day + Break Day :)

5/13/24:

Leetcode Easy x1, Medium x1, Hard x1

Started on USACO guide - Silver (https://usaco.guide/silver) (Doing problems from there) --> 2x Prefix Sum Questions, Currently reading about Coordinate Compression

5/14/24:

Leetcode Medium x1

USACO: Coordinate Compression, Two Pointers, Sorted Sets, Multisets, Custom Comparators, Greedy Algorithms with Sorting

Computer Architecture: A quantitative approach: Skimmed ch. 1

5/15/24:

Leetcode Medium x1

USACO: Binary Search on Arbitrary Monotonic Functions, Graph Traversal, Kosuraja's Algorithm

5/15/24:

Leetcode Medium x1

USACO: Binary Search, Graph Traversal

5/16/24:

IMC Launchpad Day 1

5/17/24:

IMC Launchpad Day 2

5/18/24:

USACO: Graph Traversal, Flood Fill, Trees

Leetcode Weekly Contest #398 (4/4 solved)

5/19/24:

Leetcode Hard x1

Break Day #2

5/20/24:

Codeforces Div 3 Contest (4/7 solved)

Leetcode Easy x1 (intro bitmasking)

Resume work

USACO: Bitmasking

5/21/24:

Leetcode x1

USACO: Bitmasking, Segment Trees, Euler Tours

5/22/24:

Leetcode x1

USACO: SIlver Misc. (Binary Search, Prefix Sums, Sorting)i

5/23/24:

Leetcode x1

USACO: Silver Misc. (Binary Search, Sorting, Dynamic Programming)

5/24/24:

Leetcode x1

Rust basics (Internship prep) (https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/)

USACO: Knapsack DP

5/25/24:

Leetcode x1

USACO: Seg tree variation questions

Leetcode Weekly Contest

5/26/24:

Leetcode x 1

System Design Interview: Alex Yu (added to repo)

Reread: Computing Networking (IPv4 section 4.3)

5/27/24:

Leetcode x1

System Design Interview: Alex Yu

5/28/24:

Leetcode x1

System Design Interview: Alex Yu

5/29/24:

Leetcode x1

System Design Interview: Alex Yu

5/30/24:

Leetcode x1

New Project: Custom Unix Shell in C. Progress: read_line implemented in C.

June 3rd:

USACO: Divisbiility / Primes

Knuth-Morris-Pratt algorithm

Etc.

I stopped live uploading. Here's my suggestion:

1. Always do the LC of the day if its a medium or hard.
2. Try to do CF and LC contests if you have time and are free.
3. Work through usaco.guide and cses.fi problems.
4. Read OSTEP, Networking, linux, and language trivia.