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Maximize Total Score

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Maximize Total Score

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

Smallest example: the smallest Maximize Total Score example you can type. Type it, run it, and say what you see. If you can do that from memory, you know Maximize Total Score.

From the example next to this theory — Maximize Total Score: dry-run [4, 1, 3].

Trap — only saying “Maximize Total Score” with no example. Fix that before you talk about advanced DSA.

Viva: what is Maximize Total Score? Then show the smallest Maximize Total Score example you can type. Then name the trap.

Exam tip

What is Maximize Total Score? Show this: the smallest Maximize Total Score example you can type. Trap: only saying “Maximize Total Score” with no example.

Example

# Maximize Total Score
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)

Maximize Total Score: dry-run [4, 1, 3]. Say the list after one step.

Short notes

  • DefMaximize Total Score — a short Maximize Total Score example in a short dry-run on paper.
  • Rulethe smallest Maximize Total Score example you can type
  • Traponly saying “Maximize Total Score” with no example
  • Usea short dry-run on paper

Questions

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What is Maximize Total Score?

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Give one small example of Maximize Total Score.

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What mistake do beginners make with Maximize Total Score?

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Where do you use Maximize Total Score?

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