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by non-entity 2270 days ago
I guess its something I'll get good at if I practice it more, but at I cant even really do leetcode easy right node despite having been a professional developer for a few years and a hobbyist for long before that. I have no C.S. background though.

Most of the times when I end up seeing the solution ot makes sense, but uses data structures in ways I wouldn't think. Part of the reason for that I think is because my daily work for one operates on much different types of data (business entities vs arbitrary collections of integers) and also because the logic in the applications I work on is not very algorithm heavy.

Another reason is because of high level abstractions I've been spoiled by. I could probably hack many of the problems together with LINQ but that's not gonna hold up very well.