Week 55

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 This week had a lot of new content and some review content from my Data Structures & Algorithms course at De Anza. For review, I reviewed Breadth-First Search and Depth-First Search; they were such a struggle for me at community college, but the knowledge was helpful in understanding them better a second time. We also went over Brute force string matching, exhaustive search, and the divide and conquer algorithm design.

The puzzles this week were also super challenging; I was nowhere near the correct ballpark for either solution, which I usually am. 

Overall this week wasn't too bad and I need to start focusing on the midterm it's creeping up. 

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