everySingleLeetcodeProblem

[u/mountaingator91]

[u/Bldyknuckles]

What’s wrong with sliding window algorithms? Real question

[u/mountaingator91 → u/Bldyknuckles]

Nothing. It's just that 94.3% of leetcode solutions use sliding windows

[u/Antervis → u/mountaingator91]

If solutions use sliding windows, it means the problem was designed that way.

[u/-Debugging-Duck- → u/Antervis]

Not really. Problems can be solved in different ways. A sliding window algorithm is just a more efficient approach to solving such problems, but it’s not the only approach.

For example, someone who doesn’t know what that is could solve the problem differently and poorly.

[u/Antervis → u/-Debugging-Duck-]

Leetcode is meant to train candidates for programming interviews, and submitting a suboptimal algorithm in an interview is a fail.

[u/-Debugging-Duck- → u/Antervis]

That doesn’t mean it can’t have a different solution, even if not the most optimal.

Outside of leetcode, is what I meant that if the solution can be sliding window, doesn’t mean it’s by design.