Goals - Academia or Industry

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Academic

• Pass Qualifying Exams before admission to the PhD Program
• Research with 5-8 publications
• Theoretical Foundation
• Users are specific group of professionals such as Lawyer, Doctors, accounts
• Fame > Fortune

Industry

• https://www.reddit.com/r/leetcode/comments/1d32whk/neetcode_quit_faang_to_sell_a_course/
• • https://www.reddit.com/r/leetcode/comments/1d0wq5e/got_offered_role_of_e5_meta_london_my_journey/
• Scalable with millions of users
• Enterpise solutions with high-security
• ChatGPT wil replace Call Centers and CustomerChat
• Structured Query Language
• Networking
• Fortune > Fame
• Business Landscape (supply and demand) changes over time
• Salary and Stock Options so you may have to change jobs every 5-10 years

Planning

• Fame
• Fortune
• https://kevinsun.org/notes
• https://www.cs.unc.edu/~saba/UNC_classes/fall2024/

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Theory of Computation

• mit-version
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP60_JNv2MmK3wkOt9syvfQWY
• indian version
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCiZZiqVv9w&list=PLrjkTql3jnm_TWSXXvWX1_jX-L6f1QJSx
• cartoon version
• https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhqug0UEsC-IDomfNsn8e3neoy34o8oye

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Programming Practice

• https://leetcode.com/problemset/
• neetcode.com
• https://www.techinterviewhandbook.org/grind75?hours=6&weeks=26&order=all_rounded
• https://github.com/hongxiaolong/leetcode