Algorithm Solutions

I’ve completed three more Free Code Camp algorithms since my last go on May 30th.

I needed less guidance on these particular algorithms, all but one. The algorithm solutions weren’t too hard to come up with, however on Slasher FLick I really overcomplicated my solution. I was thinking way too hard about how to solve it— new array? Should I return newArray as a part of the function call? Do I push the result of the cut off part of the array into newArray?

The instructions were:

The head means the beginning of the array, or the zeroth index.

Remember to use Read-Search-Ask if you get stuck. Write your own code.

Here are some helpful links:

Array.slice()

Array.splice() Seems simple enough. But I was thinking too much and making it more complex than it needed to be because of my recent previous solutions.

I used splice instead of slice as splice returns the chopped off part as a new array. For these instructions, here was the initial code:

[javascript]

function slasher(arr, howMany) {

// it doesn't always pay to be first

}

slasher(["burgers", "fries", "shake"], 1);

[/javascript]

Originally I had this:

I would get a double array, because like I said, splice returns a new array from the chopped off part. So I tried to use a non-initialized variable— var newArray;— that returned a TypeError.

I went to the Free Code Camp wiki to look at the explanation in more detail. I finally came up with an Aha! Moment. I only needed to return the array that was resulting in the splice method.

I settled on my final solution here:

Not too bad.

Mutations.

The instructions:

Return true if the string in the first element of the array contains all of the letters of the string in the second element of the array.

For example, ["hello", "Hello"], should return true because all of the letters in the second string are present in the first, ignoring case.

The arguments ["hello", "hey"]should return false because the string "hello" does not contain a "y".

Lastly, ["Alien", "line"], should return true because all of the letters in "line" are present in "Alien".

Remember to use Read-Search-Ask if you get stuck. Write your own code.

Here are some helpful links:

String.indexOf()

I thought, okay. I got this.

The code:

I started out with this:

That didn’t work. I went to Gitter.

A guy there told me I needed to compare two arrays. I couldn’t figure out what he meant by that. To the wiki.

There I found out I should use toLowerCase and think about turning the array strings into an array of chars.

So then I came up with this:

as part of the equation. That also didn’t work. By this time, I am tired, it is late and I just wanted this to work. I went back to the wiki and found the solution.

I wouldn’t have ever came up with this yesterday night:

I am studying this. I am trying to figure out what is going on here and I will probably go to Code Newbie Slack to ask around.

I’ve completed three more Free Code Camp algorithms since my last go on May 30th.

I needed less guidance on these particular algorithms, all but one. The algorithm solutions weren’t too hard to come up with, however on Slasher FLick I really overcomplicated my solution. I was thinking way too hard about how to solve it— new array? Should I return newArray as a part of the function call? Do I push the result of the cut off part of the array into newArray?

The instructions were:

The head means the beginning of the array, or the zeroth index.

Remember to use Read-Search-Ask if you get stuck. Write your own code.

Here are some helpful links:

Array.slice()

Array.splice() Seems simple enough. But I was thinking too much and making it more complex than it needed to be because of my recent previous solutions.

I used splice instead of slice as splice returns the chopped off part as a new array. For these instructions, here was the initial code:

[javascript]

function slasher(arr, howMany) {

// it doesn't always pay to be first

}

slasher(["burgers", "fries", "shake"], 1);

[/javascript]

Originally I had this:

I would get a double array, because like I said, splice returns a new array from the chopped off part. So I tried to use a non-initialized variable— var newArray;— that returned a TypeError.

I went to the Free Code Camp wiki to look at the explanation in more detail. I finally came up with an Aha! Moment. I only needed to return the array that was resulting in the splice method.

I settled on my final solution here:

Not too bad.

Mutations.

The instructions:

Return true if the string in the first element of the array contains all of the letters of the string in the second element of the array.

For example, ["hello", "Hello"], should return true because all of the letters in the second string are present in the first, ignoring case.

The arguments ["hello", "hey"]should return false because the string "hello" does not contain a "y".

Lastly, ["Alien", "line"], should return true because all of the letters in "line" are present in "Alien".

Remember to use Read-Search-Ask if you get stuck. Write your own code.

Here are some helpful links:

String.indexOf()

I thought, okay. I got this.

The code:

I started out with this:

That didn’t work. I went to Gitter.

A guy there told me I needed to compare two arrays. I couldn’t figure out what he meant by that. To the wiki.

There I found out I should use toLowerCase and think about turning the array strings into an array of chars.

So then I came up with this:

as part of the equation. That also didn’t work. By this time, I am tired, it is late and I just wanted this to work. I went back to the wiki and found the solution.

I wouldn’t have ever came up with this yesterday night:

I am studying this. I am trying to figure out what is going on here and I will probably go to Code Newbie Slack to ask around.

I will also be reading all the algorithm books I have and the Coursera courses I downloaded from Stanford.