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The Complete Coding Interview Guide in Java

By : Anghel Leonard
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The Complete Coding Interview Guide in Java

By: Anghel Leonard

Overview of this book

Java is one of the most sought-after programming languages in the job market, but cracking the coding interview in this challenging economy might not be easy. This comprehensive guide will help you to tackle various challenges faced in a coding job interview and avoid common interview mistakes, and will ultimately guide you toward landing your job as a Java developer. This book contains two crucial elements of coding interviews - a brief section that will take you through non-technical interview questions, while the more comprehensive part covers over 200 coding interview problems along with their hands-on solutions. This book will help you to develop skills in data structures and algorithms, which technical interviewers look for in a candidate, by solving various problems based on these topics covering a wide range of concepts such as arrays, strings, maps, linked lists, sorting, and searching. You'll find out how to approach a coding interview problem in a structured way that produces faster results. Toward the final chapters, you'll learn to solve tricky questions about concurrency, functional programming, and system scalability. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to solve Java coding problems commonly used in interviews, and will have developed the confidence to secure your Java-centric dream job.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Non-Technical Part of an Interview
7
Section 2: Concepts
12
Section 3: Algorithms and Data Structures
19
Section 4: Bonus – Concurrency and Functional Programming

Questions and coding challenges

In this section, we cover 21 questions and coding challenges that are very popular in interviews. Let's begin!

Coding challenge 1 – Lambda parts

Problem: Describe the parts of a lambda expression in Java. In addition, what characterizes a lambda expression?

Solution: As the following diagram reveals, a lambda has three main parts:

Figure 17.1 – Lambda parts

The parts of a lambda expression are as follows:

  • On the left of the arrow, there are the parameters of this lambda that are used in the lambda body. In this example, these are the parameters of the FilenameFilter.accept(File folder, String fileName) method.
  • On the right of the arrow, there is the lambda body. In this example, the lambda body checks whether the folder (folder) in which the file (fileName) was found can be read and whether the name of this file is suffixed with the .pdf string.
  • The arrow that sits between the list...