I got this problem from The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven Skiena. It’s a fairly simple exercise in Chapter 2 that I felt had a neat symmetry, so I’ve decided to write a bit about it.

2.2-3 Mathematical Induction

I came across a simple, but cool, algorithm on leetcode not too long ago. To practice my writing, I figured I’d try to explain my thought process behind it.

This short article is intended to share some of my thoughts on the future of the web.

Giving your users the ability to login on a website via a trusted OAuth provider is a huge benefit. As far as user experience goes, often one of the last things people want to do, when trying to gain access to a website, is register yet another email & password combo. Thus being forced to remember another pair of website-specific login credentials.