2026-05-20

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Daily Prep - Wednesday, 2026-05-20

Today’s Targets Completed

DSA - 7 Problems

• LC1: Longest Substring Without Repeating Characters
• LC2: Max Consecutive Ones III
• LC3: Fruit Into Baskets
• LC4: Minimum Size Subarray Sum
• LC5: Substring with Concatenation of All Words
• LC6: Find the Prefix Common Array of Two Arrays
• LC7: Maximum Sum of Distinct Subarrays With Length K

System Design - 1 Topic

• Topic: Elasticsearch

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End Of Day Reflection

• Shifted focus to starting earlier with System Design first, which completely transformed my focus and energy for the day!
• Managed to smash my LeetCode goal by solving 7 sliding window and two-pointer problems.
• Kept distractions/gaming strictly under control. Starting early is a game-changer.

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Next Day Goal

• Learn and master the next pattern: Binary Search / Heap (solve 4 core problems).
• Write and publish notes on the Dynamic Sliding Window concept.

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