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hello and welcome back to me trying to
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become a better programmer by learning
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something that I will definitely need to
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pass a technical interview but we'll
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probably forget in about a year from
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now I'm already tired I I haven't even
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started yet in my previous video go
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watch it if you haven't I had
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successfully conquered KNE code's data
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structures and algorithms course for
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beginners I completed all the lessons
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did all the Le code problems and most
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importantly managed to retain some of my
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sanity I think you know definitely not
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because I'm willing to put myself
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through hell all over again only this
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time it's the advanced version why am I
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doing this because I need a job because
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I need a job the plan is simple once
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again to finish the course only this
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time I'm giving myself a deadline you
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see in the previous video I completed
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all of the lessons in about 2 weeks it's
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not bad I wasn't really in a hurry and I
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was taking my time trying to understand
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the lessons and totally not
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procrastinating and so this time I'm
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going to challenge myself and try to
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complete everything in the span of one
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week or in general as soon as possible
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because I want the suffering to end
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quickly and because I want to see if any
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of this is actually going to help me
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when I'm doing a programming project
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like usual the internet is giving me
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conflicting answers and so I figured if
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I want the truth I'm going to have to
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dig for it myself well I guess I better
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get started because today is Saturday um
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and I'm going to give myself
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until next Saturday or as soon as
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possible okay I don't have time to do
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this I have to I have to start happy
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thoughts happy thoughts happy thoughts
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let's
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[Music]
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go now before I jump head first into
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doing the course I want to discuss a bit
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of a change in my strategy you see after
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the pain I went through in the previous
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video trying to solve every problem off
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the top of my head
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I've come to the realization that I
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don't need to do that just because I
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don't know how to solve a problem I've
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never seen before in the first 5 Seconds
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of seeing it doesn't mean that I'm going
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to be a bad programmer in fact it
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doesn't really mean anything at all if
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using Google was a sin then every
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programmer would burst into flames so I
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decided that instead of banging my head
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against the wall for 30 minutes if I
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really don't understand what's going on
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I'm going to use the solution to work
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through the problem other than that I
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just need to have some fun because
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otherwise I'm going to go insane
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although I already think think I've
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reached that
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point okay so I think what I'm going to
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try to do obviously the goal is to
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finish this as quick as possible so it
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doesn't really matter how far I can get
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in a day but I should at least set like
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a minimum goal for today which I'm going
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to say is fast and slow pointers and if
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I get to it and there's still enough
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time during the day and I still have
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brain cells left to burn then I will
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continue on to trade this should not be
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too bad and I hope with say that I
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didn't just jinx
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myself
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cadan kadan it's been a full week and I
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still don't know how to say it kadon
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yeah I'm not going to remember that
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anyway speaking of remembering things I
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actually already know how to do most of
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these algorithms in the eras section
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courtesy of the leak code data
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structures and algorithms course that I
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never finished but I did manage to go
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through the erase section that taught me
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about sliding window and two pointers so
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this wasn't anything new I should
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probably do this course I paid like 80
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bucks for it also if you look at the
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corner you might notice this little
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timer well I put it there to tell me to
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move on if I'm taking too long in a
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problem I figured it would help me waste
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less time
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but it didn't but yeah since I did
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remember these Concepts I was able to
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Breeze through them the only thing I was
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messing up on was the English
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language please
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please at least it's a TI
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and next please
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please oh I did it again no [ __ ] okay
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that should be the
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only after about 30 minutes and figuring
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out how to type I had officially
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completed all of the leak Cod problems
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for the first lesson even though I
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didn't really take that long there was
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already a little voice in my head
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beginning to doubt whether or not I
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would get to link lists today did I say
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something something about trying to
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finish
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like it's okay we still have time how
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naive I was almost as if the universe
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could sense I was having too much fun my
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steady pace of solving problems in
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around 10 minutes was beginning to slow
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down by a
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lot
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interesting wow whatever I think I can
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just solve things in like two seconds
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I'm proven wrong
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two hours
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later you would have to
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use
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kadan's algorithm
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here kadon kadon algorithm oh my [ __ ]
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God yeah I've already forgotten anyway
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at this point I was beginning to notice
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that I was falling into a steady
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learning pattern you see I would begin
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with watching the video and or reading
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through the lesson then I rewrite the
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code myself and then try to apply all of
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that knowledge to a lead code problem it
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proved to be very efficient and for a
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bit it looked like I was doing okay and
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just as I finished up a question that
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took a good second to finish I was faced
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with even more
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[Music]
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trouble why are there so
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many oh my
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God you see in the beginner's course the
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lead code questions sometimes range from
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1 to three per lesson so to see not four
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not five but sometimes six Leo questions
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I was ready to throw the entire deadline
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idea out the window oh but in my naivity
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I decided to just keep pushing after all
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I still had plenty of time
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left I'm
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free for
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today the next day I woke up with a
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fresh mind and was ready to take on the
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challenge of completing the next few
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chapters trees heaps and backtracking
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and after about 20 minutes I realized
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that that wasn't going to happen once
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again I was using the timer to tell
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myself to move on and look at the answer
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if I really didn't know how to figure
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things out and um yeah I was ignoring
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the timer I mean I did give myself way
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too little time 5 minutes is not enough
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but it doesn't really matter cuz I
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didn't listen to it anyway and so I
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spent 1 hour and 30 minutes answering
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two lead code problems and by the time I
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was moving on to the third I was not
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feeling it
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anymore we're not done
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yet I know I already hate it I don't get
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it away from
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me I don't want to do this but I have to
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cuz I said I would do all of them I'm
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going to see seem like a
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liar you know what I'll come back to
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this I will come back to this I just
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can't do this right now of course I
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didn't listen to myself and still tried
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to solve the word search problem even
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though my brain was clearly not
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functioning but I ended up looking at
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the solution anyway and so I went to bed
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feeling quite down that I only managed
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to solve a total of one lesson after 2
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hours of sitting on my computer it
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wasn't looking good I remember there was
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like a girl that came into our class one
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time and she was bragging about how she
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had like a answer that was like a really
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good
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runtime I I'm just happy that I have a
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that I have an answer and here is where
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I think we should stop and talk for a
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second why well I actually filmed this
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part in the video and unfortunately its
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audio was completely wiped for some
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reason thank you OBS you see at this
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point in the challenge I was starting to
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get really frustrated with myself I mean
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it's quite understandable I did spend 2
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hours on one lesson and the next day I
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felt so ill that I was not able to sit
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on my computer without wanting
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to vomit all the time and so I was
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beginning to think that there was no way
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I was going to finish the rest of the
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lessons in the time that I had left and
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that made me really upset in fact I was
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just thinking of ditching the entire
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project itself and just doing the
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lessons however long it took me to do
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them and then posting the video that
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then but like that didn't feel right I
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had already mentally committed to the
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challenge and I didn't want to go back
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on my word and so I thought and I
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thought and decided to change up my
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strategy once
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again so here's the thing do I really
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need to do all of the leode problems I
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mean it's a good way of showing that I
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completed the lesson of course but do I
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do I really need to be doing all of them
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I mean I'm literally treating this like
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I signed a Blood Oath to solve all of
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the problems before moving on to the
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next I mean it sounds so obvious but I
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feel like I've just been focusing on the
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wrong thing this entire time I mean I'm
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still learning but I think I'm just not
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learning as efficiently and so I decided
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that instead of focusing all of my time
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on solving every goddamn Le Cod problem
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that probably is not going to serve me
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any purpose at the moment I'm rather
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going to be focusing on the lesson
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material and what I mean by that is I
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want to understand the data structure
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and its applications and use that
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knowledge to solve like one or two Le
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code problems and then call it a [ __ ]
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day cuz to be honest at this point I
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just want to get this over with and done
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with so I could put it behind me and
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finally move on to other things like a
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project I said I would finish this
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course and I am so now with an improved
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strategy here we go again I woke up the
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next day and immediately got to work
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feeling quite pumped even though you
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can't really tell I was born with his
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face okay and let me tell you not having
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to force myself to do all of the Le code
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problems did something to my brain that
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I can't fully comprehend I was flying
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through the lessons at record-breaking
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speed and maybe it was because I had
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chugged two cups of coffee but my head
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felt clear I took my time understanding
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the material was able to get through the
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leako problems in a breeze and even dare
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I say have fun even though there isn't
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any audio thanks OBS I wasn't talking
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much to begin with which allowed me to
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really focus on what I was doing and so
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in the span of about 3 hours without
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breaks I was able to get through the
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goal of completing the three chapters
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from the previous day but wait I wasn't
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done yet because after a bit of a break
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and another two coffees I came right
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back to my computer computer and I
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finished the entire graph section who is
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this this can't be me am I really having
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fun right now and with that I only had
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one more lesson to
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complete okay it is the final push the
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final I just need to finish this section
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now I want to see how much I get done
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before I have to go um play
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volleyball I'm going to set the bar
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pretty low and just just say I want to
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finish this cuz if there's anything I've
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learned is um I keep jinxing myself and
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I need to stop saying things in order
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for them to actually come
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true inner
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peace inner peace we're so close to the
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Finish Line I can
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taste victory with the finish line so
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close in sight I wasted no time in going
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through the rest of the course which to
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be honest was not as hard as the prev
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previous courses nothing can beat graphs
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every single algorithm was very similar
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to one another so it was very easy to
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remember and so I went through my
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pattern of watching coding and then
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solving and after playing a bit of
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volleyball I came back to my computer
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and had a bit of an epiphany I do sense
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a bit of these like changes in my
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mindset because I'm looking at this and
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before I remember having absolutely no
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idea what was going on like why are we
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doing recursion here why are we adding
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to like what what is this and now even
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though it's still like I need a little
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bit of time but it makes so much more
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sense than it did back then I still have
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a long way to go I'm going to go back
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and work some more on these topics when
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I have the time of course but I feel
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like just going through the entire
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Course once really understanding all of
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this material and then doing like one
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lead code problem to just to really
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solidify what you know is such a good
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way to start yeah I know people like
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will argue and say like leode is so
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useless we shouldn't do it it's not
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going to teach you any real program but
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like it's a good start you can't hate
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people for wanting to start somewhere
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and leod just provides a really easy
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start it still is a pain in the ass
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though like I I I still have two more to
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do I'm just I decided to procrastinate
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by making a motivational speech but you
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know what we're going to continue forth
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okay where am I at right here after my
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motivational speech I got back to work
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and in only a couple of minutes had
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reached the final
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lesson okay okay literally have one left
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I need to check this box and check this
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box and I am officially done with
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absolutely no days left till the
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deadline it was literally now or never
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and I actually accidentally took a nap
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and now it's Sunday so I'm just kidding
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I'm just kidding on the same day I
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submitted my final Le code problem
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waited to make sure that it was correct
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and finally I was free at least until I
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go back and finish the rest of the
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problems
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yes don't don't even look at any of
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these don't don't don't look at them I'm
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doing them on my own time I'm I'm done
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with this I've had my fun this was fun
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are you sure about that but it is done I
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have completed it I definitely need to
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go back and work on it some more but
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that's the beauty of it I'm just I'm so
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I'm done now I get to find out whether
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like any of it's actually useful on
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projects I think I already know the
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answer thank you so much for watching
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and I wanted to take a bit of time at
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the end of this video for those of you
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that are still here hi I just wanted to
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say thank you thank you to those who
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have subscribed to me and thank you so
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much for all of the Care and support
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that you guys have been showing me it
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just feels so so strange it just doesn't
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feel like this is supposed to be
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happening I feel so grateful to be in
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this position and you guys are certainly
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motivating me to keep on making more
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videos which I definitely plan on doing
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I'm still getting used to the whole
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YouTuber thing so yes once again thank
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you so much for watching thank you to
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those who subscribed to me and I'll see
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you in my next video
