CS9: Problem-Solving for the CS Technical Interview
Autumn 2017 | Tuesday 3:00pm in STLC 111
Recent Announcements
- Welcome to Autumn 2017 CS9! Class starts Tuesday, September 26.
Course Summary
This course will prepare students to interview for software engineering and related internships and full-time positions in industry. Drawing on multiple sources of actual interview questions, students will learn key problem-solving strategies specific to the technical/coding interview. Students will be encouraged to synthesize information they have learned across different courses in the major. Emphasis will be on the oral and combination written-oral modes of communication common in coding interviews, but which are an unfamiliar settings for problem solving for many students.
| Details | |
|---|---|
| Location | STLC 111 |
| Credits | 1 |
| Grades | Satisfactory/No Credit |
| Prerequisites | CS106B/X |
Course Logistics and Policies
Students are required to attend seven of the eight class meetings between Week 2 and Week 8 (inclusive) to receive credit. No exceptions! (No attendance taken on the first day of class, and there is no class meeting the last two weeks of the quarter.)
Staff
| Cynthia Lee, Instructor | |
|---|---|
| Office | Gates 190 |
| cbl@cs.stanford.edu | |
| Jerry Cain, Instructor | |
|---|---|
| Office | Gates 192 |
| jerry@cs.stanford.edu | |
Schedule (Tentative)
| Date | Topic | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1, Sept 26 | Introduction, The Landscape, and Resumes | Slides |
| Week 2, October 3 | Résume Critiques | Slides |
| Week 3, October 10 | Career Fair Survival Guide, Interview Basics: Coding | Coding interview basics (Slides + links to our practice questions are on the last 2 slides) |
| Week 4, October 17 | Startup Panel | Hear from 4 founders/CEOs about creating and/or working for a startup |
| Week 5, October 24 | Interview Basics: Team/Behavioral questions | Slides |
| Week 6, October 31 | Sample Problems (no class meeting!) |
[Anagrams] (easy) [TwoSum] (medium) [ListShuffling] (hard) [SubarraySums] (hard) |
| Week 7, November 7 | Student Panel | Current Stanford students share their experiences with their most recent job searches. |
| Week 8, November 14 | Practice!! |
Basic Problem Set (Medium difficulty) (no solutions) Recursion Problem Set Pt. A (High difficulty) (solutions) Recursion Problem Set Pt. B (High difficulty) (solutions) |