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Companion docs for the tutorials and videos: setup guides you run once, plus the code from each video so you can copy it without scrubbing through.
Dynamic Programming: How to Talk Through It When You're Stuck
Companion piece for the YouTube video. The snippets in the order they appear on screen: the top-down memoization template, then House Robber built up from a bottom-up table to O(1) space.
Read the guide →When to Use a Heap (The Answer Interviewers Want to Hear)
Code snippets from the video
Read the guide →Setting Up Java (JDK 25)
Install the JDK and an IDE before Part 1 of the Intro to Java (2026) series. This is a one-time setup so you can jump straight into code.
Read the guide →The Graph Traversal Question That Trips Up Senior Engineers
Four code snippets from the video: BFS, number of islands, DFS, and course schedule cycle detection.
Read the guide →opp_env Workspace Layout and Your First VANET Project
What opp_env installs, how to wire a project to it, and a minimal Veins scenario that actually sends and receives. This is the reference doc for setting up a VANET project in OMNeT++.
Read the guide →Hash Map Patterns in Python
Code companion to the video on hash map patterns (complement lookup and two ways to group by a shared property) so you can copy the code without scrubbing through the video.
Read the guide →VANET Simulation Setup in 2026: The Command Reference
Every command to stand up OMNeT++, SUMO, Veins, and INET with opp_env on Fedora Linux, plus a troubleshooting reference for the errors that stop most first setups. This is the companion doc for the 2026 getting-started video.
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