Python Algorithms Exercise Practice

🐍 Exercise solutions for chapter 1.1 written in Python

Algorithms Implemented

1. is_between_zero_and_one()
2. to_binary_string()
3. print_two_dm_boolean_array()
4. print_two_dm_int_array()
5. print_int_array()
6. matrix_transposition()
7. lg()
8. Fibonacci.fib()
9. Fibonacci.fast_fib()
10. fact()
11. binary_search()
12. brute_force_search()

Code Examples

One interesting implementation is this algorithm to compute fibonacci sequences (exercise 1.1.19). It runs in O(1) time provided that the cache contains the previous two sequences. Generating the previous sequences is usually done using loops.

    @staticmethod
    def fast_fib(n: int, cache: {int: int}) -> int:
        """Fibonacci sequence algorithm utilizing dynamic programing and memoization"""
        if n == 0:
            cache[n] = 0
            return 0

        if n == 1:
            cache[n] = 1
            return 1

        cache[n] = cache[n - 2] + cache[n - 1]
        return cache[n]

It's also worth noting that I've implemented brute force search recursively here as opposed to the iterative approach in the Java source

    def brute_force_search(key: int, the_array: [int], index: int) -> int:
        """Returns the index of the key if present, otherwise -1 using brute force search"""
        if index == len(the_array):
            return -1

        if the_array[index] == key:
            return index

        return brute_force_search(key, the_array, index + 1)

Java Implementation

These were originally implemented in Java. You can find the source here