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Find the Closest Palindrome

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Find the Closest Palindrome

Find the Closest Palindrome is a DSA topic. In plain words you use it for a short Find the Closest Palindrome example in a short dry-run on paper. Don’t start with a slogan — start with that picture.

Smallest example: the smallest Find the Closest Palindrome example you can type. Type it, run it, and say what you see. If you can do that from memory, you know Find the Closest Palindrome.

From the example next to this theory — Find the Closest Palindrome: dry-run [4, 1, 3].

Trap — only saying “Find the Closest Palindrome” with no example. Fix that before you talk about advanced DSA.

Viva: what is Find the Closest Palindrome? Then show the smallest Find the Closest Palindrome example you can type. Then name the trap.

Exam tip

What is Find the Closest Palindrome? Show this: the smallest Find the Closest Palindrome example you can type. Trap: only saying “Find the Closest Palindrome” with no example.

Example

# Find the Closest Palindrome
data = [4, 1, 3]
print("start", data)
if data[0] > data[1]:
    data[0], data[1] = data[1], data[0]
print("after one step", data)

Find the Closest Palindrome: dry-run [4, 1, 3]. Say the list after one step.

Short notes

  • DefFind the Closest Palindrome — a short Find the Closest Palindrome example in a short dry-run on paper.
  • Rulethe smallest Find the Closest Palindrome example you can type
  • Traponly saying “Find the Closest Palindrome” with no example
  • Usea short dry-run on paper

Questions

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What is Find the Closest Palindrome?

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Give one small example of Find the Closest Palindrome.

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What mistake do beginners make with Find the Closest Palindrome?

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Where do you use Find the Closest Palindrome?

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